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Accounting for Sustainability: Six Practical Guides

Learn how to account for climate risks, carbon credits, the net zero transition, stranded assets, and pollution in your financial statements aligned with the IFRS Accounting Standards.

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Integrating Climate Risk into Swiss Financial Reporting

Swiss companies must integrate tighter environmental regulation and the impact of climate change into their core accounting practices. This series provides guidance on how finance and sustainability leaders can apply IFRS Accounting Standards and assess accurately the financial impact of sustainability risks and efforts in their financial statements.

Explore the ‘Accounting for Sustainability’ series

Learn how to account for climate risks, carbon credits, the net zero transition, stranded assets, and pollution in your financial statement aligned with the IFRS Accounting Standards.

Guide one: Sustainability and financial reporting

The first article in the Accounting for Sustainability series provides a comprehensive overview of how climate-related factors are increasingly impacting financial statements.
Perspective
5 minute read
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Guide two: Carbon credits and offsets

Carbon credits and offsets are reshaping corporate balance sheets, yet many finance teams struggle to account for them correctly.
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5 minute read
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Guide three: The net zero journey

The third article in the series explores the accounting complexities companies face when reporting on decarbonisation instruments essential to the energy transition. 
Perspective
7 minute read
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Guide four: Climate risks

With climate-related risks impacting balance sheets and operational resilience, how well prepared is your organisation to quantify and report on these challenges?
Perspective
7 minute read
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Guide five: Stranded assets

Climate-related risks are now materialising, stranding assets and forcing deeper integration of environmental considerations in financial accounting. Stranded assets create complex accounting challenges. 
Perspective
6 minute read
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Guide six: Pollution

Pollution represents a critical threat to environmental and human health across air, water, soil, and waste systems, contributing to  approximately one in eight deaths annually in the EU. 
Perspective
6 minute read
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Abetare Zymeri

Abetare Zymeri

Director, Swiss Sustainability & Emerging Assurance Lead
+41 58 279 64 49
Oliver Köster

Oliver Köster

Director
+41 58 279 6123

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