Environmental accountability
Sustainability reporting in Singapore
This report summarises the discussions of sustainability professionals and practitioners to discuss “The Business Benefits of Sustainability Reporting in Singapore” Read the article
Natural Capital: what do accountants think
This summary pulls out some of the highlights from ACCA’s report on natural capital and materiality?
KPMG Sustainability and Business
'Companies are starting to see the link between sustainability and financial results' says KPMG special adviser and former UN climate chief Yvo de Boer.
Corporate Asia and the Green Economy
The next few years will be critical for the acceleration of the shift to a green economy in Asia
Is natural capital a material issue?
Awareness among investors and other stakeholders of the importance of natural capital is growing, but corporate reporting must evolve to meet information needs
Other Environmental accountability Articles
Corporate China - 11 October 2012
The green economy: pushes and pulls on corporate china
Making a Difference at Rio - 12 June 2012
Provides background to Rio+20 and the zero draft of the summit agreement, the importance of paragraph 24, possible changes from zero draft to final agreement and ACCA opinions.
Climate Change: Brave New Green World - 15 May 2012
Clean energy increasingly looks like a viable way to decouple economic growth from the rise in toxic carbon emissions.
Environmental Accountability: The Carbon We're Not Counting - 01 April 2011
The carbon we’re not counting discusses three approaches for tackling Scope 3 emissions: The Control, Influence and Engaged Approaches.
Small business
ACCA has over 100 years' experience of working with the SME sector. We lobby governments, regulators and standard setters in the long-term interest of a healthy SME sector, and we support professional accountants so they can continue to function as the sector's most trusted business advisers and finance managers.
Related reading
If you're interested in environmental accountability, you may like to read some articles and reports held in our technical library.
About environmental accountability
We believe that organisations have a responsibility to account for their impact on society and the environment. Organisations must develop strategies that take account of their impact on sustainability and should consider environmental issues alongside their core business functions.
Technical activities
An important part of ACCA's institutional work is to contribute to the debate on technical issues affecting business and accountancy and to represent the interest of its members in relation to the legislation and professional standards that they have to comply with in their work.
Global Forums
The Global Forum for Sustainability brings together groups of experts from around the world to discuss issues that relate to environmental accountability and sustainability.