The Global Risks Forum (GRF)
Climate disclosure rules require companies and financial institutions to report how climate affects them and, in some regimes, how they affect the climate. The ISSB's IFRS S1 and S2 form a global baseline that jurisdictions adopt or adapt; regional regimes and nature-related frameworks sit beside them. This page sets out how disclosure governance works, where it fails to produce decision-useful information, and who decides scope, timing and enforcement.
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Climate disclosure rules are legal requirements for companies and financial institutions to report climate-related risks, opportunities and emissions. ISSB standards IFRS S1 and S2 form a baseline that jurisdictions adopt or adapt, while nature-related reporting builds on TNFD. Securities regulators, audit oversight bodies and boards decide scope, assurance and enforcement.
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For climate disclosure governance, in GRF's situational-awareness reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and flood water with a 15-day forecast chart at the centre and place names and borders from NASA GIBS, framed on the Andes; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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Public policy, claims and reporting. The dossier below sets out how the risk develops, what is measured, where the data come from, how it is modelled and who decides.
Each jurisdiction decides whether to adopt ISSB standards in full, with transition reliefs, or alongside its own rules. Differences in scope, timing and the treatment of value chain emissions reduce comparability across borders.
Scope 3 emissions, physical exposure and nature dependencies require data from suppliers, customers and assets the reporter does not control. Estimates and proxies fill gaps and must be labelled.
Limited assurance checks less than reasonable assurance, and assurance standards for sustainability information are newer than for financial statements. Unassured figures can carry errors into investment and supervisory decisions.
Securities regulators and supervisors review filings and act on misleading statements. Weak enforcement invites boilerplate; strong enforcement without safe harbours can make firms disclose less.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| IFRS S2 | The ISSB standard requiring disclosure of climate-related risks and opportunities, including governance, strategy, scenario analysis and emissions. |
| Scope 3 emissions | Indirect greenhouse gas emissions in a company's value chain, outside its own operations and purchased energy. |
| Limited assurance | An assurance engagement giving a negative-form conclusion on less evidence than reasonable assurance requires. |
Each indicator carries its unit, its cadence, the kind of source behind it and the evidence label a value would carry. No values are shown: a programme supplies them under its own authority.
| Indicator | Unit | Cadence | Source type | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jurisdictions adopting or using ISSB standards | count, by approach | on change | IFRS Foundation jurisdictional profiles | OFFICIAL |
| Mandatory climate disclosure regime in force | yes or no, with scope | on change | National regulation | OFFICIAL |
| Companies reporting scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions | share of in-scope companies | annual | Company filings | DECLARED |
| Disclosures with external assurance | share of reports, by level | annual | Company filings | DECLARED |
| Regulator review findings on sustainability reports | count by issue type | annual | Securities regulator reports | OFFICIAL |
| Disclosures referencing TNFD recommendations | count of organizations | annual | TNFD adopter records | DECLARED |
The topic as a computational graph: named sources feed the methods, an evidence review gates the outputs, and the decisions stay with the authorities that hold them.
Fig. 02Nodes carry their type, two metric rows and a state; connectors show what feeds what; dashed frames name the owners; the timeline is the cadence. Design of the pipeline, not a record of a run.
Named public datasets and institutional records, each with its licence class. Sources by agreement are used only under their terms and never republished.
| Source | What it gives | Licence class |
|---|---|---|
| IFRS Foundation jurisdictional profiles | How each jurisdiction adopts or uses ISSB standards | Free to read, IFRS Foundation terms |
| European Securities and Markets Authority enforcement reports | Priorities and findings of sustainability reporting enforcement | Public, EU reuse terms |
| CDP disclosure data | Self-reported climate, water and forest data from companies | Proprietary; summary results free to read |
| TNFD adopter list | Organizations committing to report against TNFD recommendations | Free to read, terms to check |
| IOSCO sustainability reports | Securities regulators' work on adoption, assurance and greenwashing | Free, IOSCO terms |
| SEC EDGAR filings | United States filings including risk factor and climate disclosures | Public domain |
Climate and Nature Governance prepares evidence. The decisions below are taken by the authorities named, under their own rules, and never by the platform.
| Who decides | The question | Evidence this page serves |
|---|---|---|
| Securities regulators and finance ministries | Whether to adopt ISSB standards, in what scope and on what timeline | Jurisdictional comparisons and implementation records |
| Audit oversight bodies | Which assurance standards apply and how assurers are overseen | Assurance practice and inspection findings |
| Company boards and audit committees | What is material, how it is governed and how it is assured | Comparable disclosures and regulator review findings |
| The ISSB and jurisdictional standard setters | How standards evolve, including on nature | Consultation records and implementation evidence |
Disclosure aims to correct information gaps so that markets and the public can assess climate risk and performance. International standards, such as those developed by the International Sustainability Standards Board building on the earlier Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures framework, sit alongside jurisdiction-specific rules. Adoption, scope and assurance requirements vary.
Without consistent definitions and verification, disclosure can enable greenwashing: claims that overstate environmental performance. Consumer protection and securities authorities in several jurisdictions have begun to act on misleading claims. Disclosure is a means, not an end; it changes outcomes only when someone uses the information.
Comparing disclosure rules across jurisdictions, using policy, institutional and decision science.
Examining how authorities oversee environmental claims. Enforcement records are uneven.
Assessing whether and how investors, regulators and the public use disclosed information.
Reviewing how governments report climate risk, informed by climate and atmospheric science.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.