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Corporate environmental reporting: Are French firms compliant with the Task Force on Climate Financial Disclosures' recommendations?
Author(s) -
Demaria Samira,
Rigot Sandra
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
business strategy and the environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.123
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1099-0836
pISSN - 0964-4733
DOI - 10.1002/bse.2651
Subject(s) - business , transparency (behavior) , corporate governance , accounting , task force , index (typography) , financial stability , compliance (psychology) , accounting management , finance , climate change , accounting information system , financial system , political science , psychology , social psychology , public administration , world wide web , computer science , law , ecology , biology
This article deals with the practices of French corporate environmental disclosure with a focus on climate‐related risks. In particular, it aims to analyse the compliance of CAC 40 firms with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate‐related Financial Disclosures (2017), an international initiative made up by Financial Stability Board to enhance financial transparency. On the basis of a content analysis of firms' reference documents spanning 2015–2018, we constructed the Climate Compliance Index (CCI) to evaluate whether firms disclose information on climate risks and opportunities about governance, strategy, risk management and metrics. Our results highlight a gradual increase of the CCI despite disparities across sectors and management areas. The content analysis allows us to develop a set of indicators frequently reported by domain and to identify and define climate risks and opportunities and their financial impacts per sector, which is a first step to improve the disclosure of non‐financial information.

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