Charles Turner

Articles by Charles Turner

  • Outcome of Glencore's OECD human rights complaint questions pushback of due diligence laws in UK and EU

    22 November 2024

    As UK NCP finds instances of non-compliance at a former subsidiary of Glencore in Chad.

  • Comment: Mind the audit 'expectation gap': Will sustainability assurance open the floodgates for greenwashing?

    02 September 2024

    Some industry stakeholders are expressing concerns, in private conversations, about how the nascent market for mandatory assurance of sustainability information can blow up in our faces in the form of an unexpected under the counter greenwashing.

  • SASB Madness: Our House

    01 July 2024

    ISSB board members ponder whether to do a want a quick renovation job or an entire new blueprint for SASB standards

  • EFRAG-ISSB's interoperability gospel, Saint Thomas and the resurrection of SASB Standards

    24 May 2024

    Why SASB Standards emerge as a key interoperability tool for ISSB and EFRAG

  • Large asset owners NBIM, CalPERS and CalSTRS backed Domini's TNFD proposals at Home Depot

    17 May 2024

    Awareness of institutional investors highlights financial materiality of nature-related issues

  • Home Depot confronts Domini's TNFD-related shareholder proposal labelling it as 'unnecessary'

    25 April 2024

    Domini Impact Investments calls on the world's largest home improvement retailer - with more than 2,300 stores in the US, Canada and Mexico - to use the TNFD's risk management and disclosure framework to fully assess its exposure to nature-related issues

  • Costa Rica: "ISSB adoption will promote competitiveness and the country's position in international markets"

    19 April 2024

    Interview with Alberto Porras, managing partner at Baker Tilly in Costa Rica

  • ISSB Standards architecture: blueprint shows SASB as building foundations for next development phase

    25 March 2024

    Board members revealed the cornerstones of the ISSB's edifice at Frankfurt's March meeting. SASB Standards would serve as structural pillars underpinning both thematic and industry-based standards, as well as the implementation of S1 and S2

  • Starbucks avoids first TNFD-related shareholder proposal of the US AGM season

    20 February 2024

    US investors from the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) also targeted Home Depot and International Paper

  • Float like a butterfly sting like the BEES: can the ISSB learn from the Rumble in the Jungle?

    06 February 2024

    As EFRAG seeks alignment with the TNFD framework, is the ISSB down for the count in the global sustainability reporting arena?