Businesses around the world are being asked to be more open about climate-change risks by adopting the best-practice guidelines of the international Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures. The property and construction sector contributes more than 40% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, yet not much is known about how these companies are addressing climate-change risk. Research was undertaken to address this gap by developing a system for assessing alignment with the task force guidelines, analysing the barriers for adopting the guidelines and providing recommendations for overcoming these barriers. Findings show that property and construction companies in countries such as Malaysia tend to fall into the ‘laggard’ group. There is also variation in the carbon dioxide metrics disclosed by companies, which makes comparison difficult. Some of the proposed recommendations to address them include forming an industry-specific network to share best practices, appointing a focal point by region to facilitate training and an international coordinated effort to harmonise existing tools relating to carbon dioxide reporting.

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与气候有关的财务披露以及房地产和建筑业

通过采用国际气候相关金融披露特别工作组的最佳实践准则，要求全世界的企业对气候变化风险更加开放。房地产和建筑业贡献了全球40％以上的温室气体排放，但对于这些公司如何应对气候变化风险知之甚少。通过开发评估与工作队准则的一致性的系统，分析采用准则的障碍并提供克服这些障碍的建议的方法，进行了研究以解决这一差距。调查结果表明，马来西亚等国家的房地产和建筑公司往往属于“ laggard”集团。公司披露的二氧化碳指标也有所不同，这使得比较困难。为解决这些建议而提出的一些建议包括：建立一个特定行业的网络，以交流最佳做法；按地区指定一个联络点以促进培训；以及进行国际协调，以协调与二氧化碳报告有关的现有工具。