Is your chief financial officer still reeling from the dawning realisation of the scale of your company's carbon liabilities and the huge challenge involved in keeping proper and timely account of them?
No wonder. Chances are the way your company currently collects greenhouse gas data won't cut it when trading starts.
CE Daily talks to Ernst & Young's Lorraine Stephenson about the complex task of integrating greenhouse gas data with traditional financial data.(plus audio)
There is still a tendency to indulge in 'trophy cabinet' reporting on sustainability and climate change, despite dramatic improvements in the quality of reporting, says Colonial First State's Amanda McCluskey.
Meanwhile, the Carbon Disclosure Project sets out best practice measures to encourage supply chain reporting of emissions and carbon strategies.
We all know what emissions trading means at the policy level, but what about the nuts and bolts of being a company involved in emissions trading?
Few businesses have as much trading experience as energy giant BP, which has an emissions trading desk that services the company and some key customers. And few within BP are better placed to talk about it than Mark 'I love trading' Proegler. CE Daily asks for the low-down on how companies should get ready for the world of trading. (plus audio)