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Climate Disclosure Advisory Group 2021
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The SSE’s Partner Exchanges and key stakeholders are invited to participate in the second Climate Disclosure Advisory Group webinar.

The ‘First Draft’ brainstorming webinar took place on Wednesday 17 February 2021 at 09:00 and 16:00 Geneva Time. The two webinars were substantively identical. The meeting was organized twice in one day to accommodate the many time zones of the Advisory Group members.

 

UN SSE Climate Disclosure Advisory Group

SSE launched a new project to support exchanges in providing guidance to issuers on climate disclosure. The new workstream will assist stock exchanges in developing best practice reporting guidance for issuers to ensure globally consistent disclosures incorporating the recommendations from the FSB Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). More information here.

 

First Climate Disclosure Advisory Group Webinar

The ‘Zero Draft’ brainstorming webinar took place in October 2020 and you find more information here.

Webinar Summary

Summary 

The United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative hosted a webinar meeting of the SSE Climate Disclosure Advisory Group to discuss how to support stock exchanges in providing guidance to issuers on climate disclosure. The meeting brought together exchanges, regulators, and investors in order to review the first draft of a model guidance. The document will assist exchanges in developing best practice reporting guidance for issuers to ensure globally consistent disclosures incorporating the recommendations from the FSB Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

The SSE held two webinars to accommodate the many time zones of all members of the Advisory Group. In total there were 58 participants joining from 21 countries around the world, including representatives of 21 exchanges.

The discussions were moderated by London Stock Exchange and Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Co-Chairs of the SSE Climate Disclosure Advisory Group, who walked readers through the first draft, and the changes made after receiving the comments from the Advisory Group menmbers. The Advisory Group highlighted the importance of the SSE project for assisting exchanges by informing broader international discussions about best practices in implementing the TCFD recommendations.

Speakers on the calls included representatives from: CDSB, NSE, Borsa Italiana, Bursa Malaysia, JPX, CVM, The ICE, SASB.

Webinar slides

Who’s in the Advisory Group?

Besides the chairs, the London Stock Exchange and Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the SSE Climate Disclosure Advisory Group includes representatives from the following organizations: 

List of Participants

The webinar had 58 participants from 21 markets, including 21 exchanges.