CDP: Firms failing to strengthen climate risk reporting despite EU guidelines

Michael Holder
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Review of 80 of Europe's biggest companies finds continuing gap between environmental risks listed in reports and concrete actions being taken to address them

Less than half of Europe's largest companies currently identify and explain how they are managing risks posed to their business by climate change and environmental impacts, despite EU guidelines designed...

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