ACCA’s chief executive signs global call to action statement in response to climate change

25 February 2020

Helen Brand, the chief executive of ACCA has joined forces with chief executives of other professional bodies in a call to urge the global accountancy profession to act now to respond to climate change with the scale and urgency needed.

Organised by A4S, the call to action statement has been signed by 13 chief executives representing 14 accounting bodies representing over 2.5 million accountants and students globally. Each body is a member of A4S’s Accounting Bodies Network (ABN).

The statement lists four clear actions for accountants:

• Provide sound advice and services as organisations, capital markets, and governments develop and implement plans for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
• Use and implement existing and developing reporting frameworks such as those from the International Integrated Reporting Council and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.
• Contribute to the efforts of the organisations they work with to integrate climate change risk into organisational strategy, finance, operations, and communications.
• Support sustainable decision making within the organisations they work for by allocating budgets and resources, and by developing high quality and timely information and insights through measurement and disclosure, built on robust and transparent accounting systems.

Full press release on ACCA

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