Introduction: Why Do We Need to Talk About Climate Change Risk as Accountants and Auditors Urgently?
Introduction: Why Do We Need to Talk About Climate Change Risk as Accountants and Auditors Urgently?
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简介:为什么我们作为会计师和审计师迫切需要谈论气候变化风险?
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10.1007/978-981-32-9588-9_1
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2019
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K. Çalıyurt
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作者:
K. Çalıyurt
As the International Group on Governance Fraud Ethics and CSR, we wrote this book while we were organizing the 8th conference in Canada and 9th conference in India. I would like to thank Prof. Nauman Farooqi, Dean of Business and Social Sciences and Prof. Harpreet Kaur, Head of Corporate Governance Department, National Law University for their hospitality. In this book, we have thirteen chapters around five countries: Turkey, Bulgaria, Indonesia, Brasil, and India. Our authors have discussed recent issues on sustainability and corporate social responsibility in their chapters. In four chapters, we focused on women in sustainability and corporate social responsibility. As an accounting professor, my plan is to have your attention on a very urgent issue, climate change risk and its management. Why? Because our world is dying… Most of the companies don’t pay attention to environmental problem, they don’t like to publish sustainability report, they don’t like to get training for their staff on environmental issues, they don’t like to measure and disclose carbon emission, etc. However, all of us know that irresponsible companies make environmental issues worse everyday therefore accountant and finance staff in companies have responsibilities to push managerial board and shareholders to include sufficient expenses about environmental issues in the budget continuously.Climate change is a change in the pattern of weather, and related changes in oceans, land surfaces, and ice sheets, occurring over time scales of decades or longer.(Australian Academy of Science 2019) Latest reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provide multiple lines of evidence that the global climate is changing as a consequence of the rapidly increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (IPCC 2013). The rate of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere started to increase after the industrial revolution that started in the 1750s, and the carbon dioxide rate increased by 40% to 280–394 ppm. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the increase in carbon dioxide is primarily due to the use of fossil fuels. An