Climate Change & Emissions To Air-Greenhouse Gas Emissions To Be Disclosed

Defra announced on 20 June that all businesses listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange will have to report their levels of greenhouse gas emissions from the start of the next financial year, under plans announced at the Rio+ 20 Summit. The UK is the first country to make it compulsory for companies to include emissions data for their entire organisation in their annual reports. The new regulations will be introduced from April 2013 and reviewed in 2015, before a decision is made on whether to extend the approach to all large companies from 2016.