Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB)

The Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CSDB) was convened at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in response to increasing calls for action from corporations and financial markets to address global warming and the associated growth of climate change information collection and reporting initiatives (press release).

CDSB’s mission is to promote and advance climate change related disclosure in mainstream reports through the development of a global framework for corporate reporting on climate change.  By working with preparers and users of information, their advisors, regulators and public interest groups, CDSB aims to develop a framework that will elicit comprehensive, consistent and comparable information for investors, offer greater certainty on disclosure requirements for corporations, and thereby provide useful guidance for standard setting by national regulators.

CDSB operates through a Board and is supported by an Advisory Committee of leading industrial, financial services and accounting firms as well as a number of distinguished governmental and non-governmental representatives. As at 21 May 2008, CDSB Board Members are:

• Carbon Disclosure Project
• CERES
• The Climate Group
• The Climate Registry
• International Emissions Trading Association
• World Resources Institute
• World Economic Forum
  

For more information on the CDSB, please contact

Lois Guthrie,
Technical Director,
Carbon Disclosure Project
lois@cdproject.net    

Brindusa Fidanza,
Project Manager,
World Economic Forum
environment@weforum.org