Environmental accounting is the practice of using traditional accounting and finance principles to calculate the costs that business decisions will have on the environment. For example, before ...

Michael Vardon was employed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and has consulted to the United Nations and World Bank on environmental accounting. He is a member of the World Bank's Policy and ...

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Businesses are using environmental credits such as carbon allowances and offsets and renewable energy certificates to help them meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, but the accounting rules ...

The U.S. accounting standard-setter will consider crafting rules for how companies should account for climate-related transactions, a key step to providing clarity for firms and investors on deals ...

GLOBAL WARMING, ozone depletion, and environmental pollution are environmental concerns that affect everyone. Global warming, for example, is evidenced from different indications, such the notable ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board today proposed an accounting standards update related to environmental credits and environmental credits obligations. The changes in the proposed ASU aims to ...

Human health and the natural environment are indivisible. A recent article in the journal The Lancet reminds us that “economic decisions on the environment have major impacts on human health, and ...

Kering released the results of its pioneering Environmental Profit and Loss Account (E P&L) 1 today, measuring its environmental footprint in its own operations and across the Group’s supply chains ...

This paper examines the issues of environmental reporting in Sweden. Sweden has been at the forefront of such environmental reporting, and the survey cited in the final section of the paper ...