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New report: a call for improved climate-related disclosures

Companies are facing increasing pressure to disclose climate-related financial risks and opportunities, including the use of carbon credits in their sustainability strategies. Current disclosure regimes lack transparency around the origin and identity of credits, resulting in incomplete or absent disclosure. Proposed updates and impending regulations will require more comprehensive disclosures about credit usage. 

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What are climate-related disclosures?

Disclosures refer to information that companies publicly provide about their operations, financial performance, and risks. The purpose is to provide transparency to investors and other stakeholders, so they can make informed decisions about the company. Examples of disclosures include annual reports, financial statements, and disclosures to regulators.

Companies are increasingly publishing climate-related disclosures. This information can include data on a company's greenhouse gas emissions, its exposure to physical and transition risks from climate change, and its strategies for managing these risks and opportunities in the context of a net-zero transition.

Sylvera's mission is to help progress the net zero transition by ensuring companies can access, assess and invest in high-quality carbon credits. We launched Carbon Credit Analytics to enable the analysis of credit portfolios across 1450 companies. 

This product reveals both inconsistencies and highlights best practices is climate disclosures. Greater transparency and scrutiny, facilitated by more comprehensive disclosure regulations, can help combat the climate crisis.

To gain greater visibility into voluntary carbon market activities and access carbon credit portfolio data and analysis, request a Carbon Credit Analytics demo today.  
While improvements in guidance to ensure consistent quality of carbon credit-related disclosures are needed, some companies are already demonstrating good practice. These 10 companies disclose all carbon credits purchased and the issuing carbon offset project.

Dig into impending regulations and climate disclosures 

Learn how to address imminent regulation changes and improve how you disclose your climate strategies with our latest report. It outlines impending regulations that will require the disclosure of carbon credits and data that reveals both the inconsistency of carbon credit disclosures and integrity of carbon credit portfolios, as well as examples of best practice. 

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Senior Product Manager

Larsen Mabika is a Senior Product Manager at Sylvera. He holds a masters degree in Business Administration and Strategy from Linkoping University in Sweden and a bachelor's degree in Business Development from Escem Business School in France. Prior to Sylvera, Larsen worked at IHSMarkit (Now S&P Global) in various roles across the Financial Services and Energy and Natural Resources departments.

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Policy Associate

Polly Thompson is a Policy Associate at Sylvera. She holds a masters degree in Climate Change from UCL and a degree in Natural Science from the University of Cambridge. A former teacher, her role in the policy team focuses on communications and sharing climate and Voluntary Carbon Markets expertise.

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