Deloitte to Offer Training for Businesses to Meet Climate Disclosure Requirements

To upskill company bean counters to meet Australia’s new climate change disclosure requirements, Melbourne-based university RMIT Online has partnered with Deloitte to offer training in this area. RMIT Online CEO Nic Cola said, “Compliance relies on upskilling,” and the partnership will see a short course, known as a “micro-credential” offered to those at the financial reporting coalface. “Encompassing governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets, organisations will need to update more than their financial reporting, ” Mr. Cola said, in comments obtained by AAP. Deloitte stressed the new compliance reporting was not just a box-checking exercise, but would make businesses more resilient in the face of the effects of climate change....