ESG and climate standard setters have been busy. Boards face an alphabet soup of voluntary, industry, regulatory bodies which are defining how ‘green’ they are. New capabilities are required in 2024 to manage the deltas between the languages being used to describe ‘what green looks like’ to an auditable standard. Large firms caught by EU regimes are facing very tight reporting Implementation deadlines that require looking at operations, risk and information management in fundamentally different ways. Kevin Bourne, former trader and ESG data guru, primes us for what lies ahead and teases out the ‘so what’ for regulated firms in advance of our annual conference on 7 February in London – register here.