Makower: Supply chain contracts will enforce climate disclosures more than regulators
Joel Makower · A reality check on corporate sustainability · Nov 16, 2022 · at 18:56
Joel Makower, co-founder of GreenBiz Group, argues that commercial buyer-seller relationships using TCFD and TNFD frameworks will enforce climate action faster than government mandates.
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“I think there's a lot more, you know, in the task force for climate-related financial disclosures than now the task Of course, for nature-related financial disclosures, that a lot of those things, which will be enforced through contracts, supply, supplier relationships buyer-seller relationships will have more clout with bigger sticks than and then, of course, the carrots of the opportunities and the ability to either retain business or gain new business.”
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