A G20 task force wants companies to come clean on climate risk

Dec 14, 2016

An enormous iceberg (R) breaks off the Knox Coast in the Australian Antarctic Territory, January 11, 2008. Australia's CSIRO's atmospheric research unit has found the world is warming faster than predicted by the United Nations' top climate change body, with harmful emissions exceeding worst-case estimates. Picture taken January 11, 2008.

The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures will ask companies how they're managing the risk to their business from climate change. Image: REUTERS/Torsten Blackwood

Nina Chestney

Reporter, Reuters

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