Disclosure regime for climate change: proposal and prospects for India Inc

ABSTRACT

Climate change is a financial risk to companies, and those that disregard this will have to deal with losses due to extreme weather events, new regulations, or the disruption of the supply chain. Companies must disclose climate-related financial implications to enable informed decision-making by investors and other stakeholders. Any indifference or disregard for climate-related disclosures will harm the investors who may trade based on insufficient information and prices of securities that do not account for climate risks. In India, disclosures are mandated for companies under the Companies Act 2013 and various Securities and Exchange Board of India Regulations. This paper will explore the adequacy of the current disclosure regime concerning climate change and argue that, although information regarding climate risks falls within the ambit of the current set of mandated disclosures, it is insufficient. The paper concludes by making a case for mandatory climate disclosures under the Companies Act.

KEYWORDS:

• Corporate governance
• climate disclosures
• Companies Act 2013
• SEBI Regulations

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

¹ Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act 2006, s 7 provides for the classification and definition of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise. It is defined as follows subsequent to the extraordinary gazette notification [F. No. 2/1(5)/2019-P&G/Policy (Pt.-IV)] that came into effect from 01.07.2020:

(i) a micro enterprise, where the investment in Plant and Machinery or Equipment does not exceed one crore rupees and turnover does not exceed five crore rupees;

(ii) a small enterprise, where the investment in Plant and Machinery or Equipment does not exceed ten crore rupees and turnover does not exceed fifty crore rupees;

(iii) a medium enterprise, where the investment in Plant and Machinery or Equipment does not exceed fifty crore rupees and turnover does not exceed two hundred and fifty crore rupees.

² ’How Your Company Can Advance Each of the SDGs’ (UN Global Compact) <https://www.unglobalcompact.org/sdgs/17-global-goals> accessed 3 October 2023.

³ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change Summary for Policy Makers (IPCC 2022).

⁴ Paran Balakrishnan, ‘Climate Change Is Taking Its Toll on India’ (Hindu Business Line, 27 November 2019) <https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/climate-change-is-taking-its-toll-on-india/article30089680.ece> accessed 3 October 2023.

⁵ ’Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures: 2019 Status Report’ (Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, June 2019).

⁶ ’Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change’ (n 3).

⁷ John Llewellyn, The Business of Climate Change – Challenges and Opportunities. (Lehman Brothers 2007) 145.

⁸ Mark Carney, ‘Breaking the Tragedy of the Horizon – Climate Change and Financial Stability’ (Bank of England, 29 September 2015) <https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/speech/2015/breaking-the-tragedy-of-the-horizon-climate-change-and-financial-stability.pdf?la=en&hash=7C67E785651862457D99511147C7424FF5EA0C1A> accessed 3 October 2023.

⁹ For example, in the case of Ramirez v Exxon Mobil Corp, 334 F Supp 3d 832 (ND Tex 2018), a securities fraud class action against Exxon Mobil was filed alleging that the company failed to disclose climate risks. The adoption of a low-carbon pathway also gives businesses access to capital/sustainable finance and markets for sustainable products and clean technologies. Companies which do not explore these possibilities might find that they are outpaced by more sustainable companies. This is already evident in the automotive industry, as car manufacturers who have placed a greater emphasis on cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicles are gaining market share.

¹⁰ Ananth Jain, ‘Hybridizing India’s Automotive Sector: From EVs to Alternative Fuel Vehicles – ET Auto’ (ETAuto.com, 2 July 2021) <https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/changehybridisingchangechangehybridizingchange-indias-automotive-sector-from-evs-to-alternative-fuel-vehicles/84064307> accessed 3 October 2023.

¹¹ [2019] FCA 14 (Federal Court of Australia). The plaintiff, Mark McVeigh, alleged that the Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (“REST”) failed to provide information related to climate change business risks and any plans to address those risks, which he claimed was a violation of the Corporations Act 2001 and the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993. The case was settled in November 2020, with REST agreeing to incorporate climate change financial risks in its investments, implement a net-zero by 2050 carbon footprint goal, measure, monitor and report climate progress in line with the Task Force on Climate-related Disclosures, ensure investee climate disclosure, and publicly disclose portfolio holdings, among other commitments.

¹² Roshaan Wasim, ‘Corporate (Non) Disclosure of Climate Change Information’ (2019) 119 Columbia Law Review 1311. While this was the idea behind the Securities Exchange Act 1934, it holds well generally for all companies.

¹³ ’Disclose What Matters: Bridging the Gap between Investor Needs and Company Disclosures on Sustainability’ (CERES 2018) <https://www.ceres.org/sites/default/files/reports/2018–08/Ceres_DiscloseWhatMatters_Final.pdf> accessed 3 October 2023.

¹⁴ Riccardo Boffo and Robert Patalano, “ESG Investing: Practices, Progress and Challenges” [2020] OECD Paris 88.

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¹⁷ Richard Frederick, “Disclosure: A Corporate Governance Tool That Really Works?” (OECD) <https://www.oecd.org/corporate/ca/corporategovernanceprinciples/1920852.pdf> accessed 3 October 2023.

¹⁸ Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Circular, SEBI/HO/CFD/CMD-2?P/CIR/2021/562, 10 May 2021 on Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting by listed entities.

¹⁹ The Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting is a mandate for the top 1000 companies based on market capitalization on National Stock Exchange of India and Bombay Stock Exchange. For the rest of the companies, disclosures based on Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting can be made on a voluntary basis.

²⁰ GRI is the independent, international organization that helps businesses and other organizations take responsibility for their impacts, by providing them with the global common language to communicate those impacts. <https://www.globalreporting.org/> accessed 3 October 2023.

²¹ CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. <https://www.cdp.net/en> accessed 3 October 2023.

²² SASB Standards guide the disclosure of financially material sustainability information by companies to their investors. Sustainability Accounting Standards Board <https://www.sasb.org/> accessed 3 October 2023.

²³ “Final Report: Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures” (2017) <https://assets.bbhub.io/company/sites/60/2020/10/FINAL-2017-TCFD-Report−11,052,018pdf> accessed 18 December 2023.

²⁴ ’Disclose What Matters: Bridging the Gap between Investor Needs and Company Disclosures on Sustainability’ (n 13).

²⁵ Lawrence, Wheeler and ebrary, Inc (n 16).

²⁶ OECD, G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2015) <https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/governance/g20-oecd-principles-of-corporate-governance-2015_9789264236882-en;jsessionid=vcw-jgclQ7vSoRE5KGjlUHVo.ip-10-240-5-172> accessed 4 October 2023.

²⁷ ibid.

²⁸ Companies Act, s 134(3).

²⁹ GK Kapoor and Sanjay Dhamija, Company Law & Practice: A Comprehensive Text Book on Companies Act 2013 (25th edn, Taxmann 2021).

³⁰ Companies Act, s 134(3)(l).

31 ibid, s 134(3)(m).

³² Companies (Accounts) Rules 2014, G.S.R.239 (E), Ministry of Corporate Affairs Notification, 3 March 2014.

³³ ibid, rule 8.

³⁴ ’Improvement of power factor’ encompasses methods and techniques to ensure that the appliances do not draw more current than required to execute a particular task. This in turn leads to power conservation.

³⁵ Coal India, ‘Annual Report & Accounts (2020–2021): Coal India Limited’ (Coal India Limited) <https://www.coalindia.in/media/documents/AR_2.pdf> accessed 4 October 2023.

³⁶ HDFC, ‘HDFC Bank: Integrated Annual Report 2020–21’ 153 <https://v1.hdfcbank.com/htdocs/common/2021/July/AR/hdfc-AR/pdf/Integrated-annual-report-2020–21.pdf> accessed 4 October 2023.

³⁷ Companies Act, s 134(3)(n).

³⁸ Afra Afsharipour, ‘The Evolution of Risk Management Oversight by Indian Boards’ 33 National Law School of India Review 33 <https://nlsir.com/the-evolution-of-risk-management-oversight-by-indian-boards/> 3 October 2023.

³⁹ Coal India Limited, ‘Sustainability Report 2020–21: Coal India Limited’ (November, 2021) <https://d3u7ubx0okog7j.cloudfront.net/documents/Sustainability_Report-2020–21-Assured_kvLnCi7.pdf> accessed 08 February 2024.

⁴⁰ The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an international convention with 197 member countries that entered into force in 1994 with the aim of ‘Preventing dangerous human interference with the climate system’. UNFCCC <https://unfccc.int/> accessed 10 August 2022.

⁴¹ Glasgow Climate Pact, Decision 1/CP.26, FCCC/CP/2021/12/Add.1 [20] <https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cop26_auv_2f_cover_decision.pdf> accessed 18 December 2023.

⁴² HDFC (n 36) 37.

⁴³ Decision 1/CP.21, The Paris Agreement, FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1. The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, France, on 12 December 2015. It entered into force on 4 November 2016. Its overarching goal is to hold ‘the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels’ and pursue efforts ‘to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels’.

⁴⁴ ibid.

⁴⁵ LODR Regulations, reg 4(2)(e).

⁴⁶ ibid, regs 4(2)(e)(i) and (ii).

⁴⁷ ibid, reg 4(f)(ii)(1).

⁴⁸ ibid, reg 4(f)(ii)(7).

⁴⁹ ibid, reg 4(f)(iii)(9).

⁵⁰ ibid, reg 17(9).

⁵¹ ibid, reg 4(2).

⁵² ICDR Regulations, regs 24 and 70.

⁵³ ibid, sch VI para 5.

⁵⁴ ibid, sch VI paras 10–12.

⁵⁵ Umakanth Varottil, “Directors” Liability and Climate Risk: White Paper on India’ (2021) SSRN Scholarly Paper ID 3,936,428 <https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3936428> accessed 3 October 2023.

⁵⁶ LODR Regulations, reg 30(1).

⁵⁷ ibid, sch III pt A para A.

⁵⁸ ibid, sch III pt A para B.

⁵⁹ SEBI Circular CIR/CFD/CMD/4/2015 on 9 September 2015, Subject: Continuous Disclosure Requirements for Listed Entities––Regulation 30 of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations 2015.

⁶⁰ ibid, annexure I para 6.1.

⁶¹ ibid, annexure I para 6.2.

⁶² LODR Regulations, regs 51(2) and 83(2).

⁶³ Azman Usmani, ‘Cyclone Risks Are Intensifying For India Due To Climate Change’ (BloombergQuint, 28 February 2022) <https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/cyclone-risks-are-intensifying-for-india-due-to-climate-change> accessed 3 October 2023.

⁶⁴ Vineet Kumar Singh and MK Roxy, ‘A Review of Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions during Tropical Cyclones in the North Indian Ocean’ (2022) 226 Earth-Science Reviews 103,967.

⁶⁵ ’Cyclone Amphan Update––Disclosure under Regulation 30 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015’ (Bandhan Bank Limited, 21 May 2022) <https://www.bandhanbank.com/sites/default/files/2020–12/SE_Intimation_Amphan_Update.pdf> accessed 3 October 2023.

⁶⁶ ’Cyclone Amphan Hit Bandhan Bank Business Worth Rs 260 Cr’ (Equitypandit, 22 May 2020) <https://www.equitypandit.com/cyclone-amphan-hit-bandhan-bank-business-worth-rs-260-cr/> accessed 3 October 2023.

⁶⁷ ’Cyclone Amphan Update––Disclosure under Regulation 30 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015’ (n 65).

⁶⁸ UN Environment, ‘Global Climate Litigation Report: 2020 Status Review’ (UNEP–UN Environment Programme, 25 January 2021) <http://www.unep.org/resources/report/global-climate-litigation-report-2020-status-review> accessed 3 October 2023.

⁶⁹ ’Turning up the Heat: Corporate Legal Accountability for Climate Change’ (Business and Human Rights Resource Centre 2018)) <https://media.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/files/CLA_AB_2018_Full.pdf> accessed 3 October 2023.

⁷⁰ Ramirez v Exxon Mobil Corp (n 9).

⁷¹ Abrahams v Commonwealth Bank of Australia, NSD864/2021 (Federal Court of Australia).

⁷² Shibani Ghosh, ‘Litigating Climate Claims in India’ (2020) 114 American Journal of International Law 45.

⁷³ SEBI increased the number from 500 to 1000 by the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) (Fifth Amendment) Regulations 2019, w.e.f. 26 December 2019.

⁷⁴ BRR was introduced by SEBI in 2012 as a voluntary framework for listed companies to report their non-financial performance, including ESG parameters. In 2021, SEBI replaced BRR with a new reporting framework called the Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report, which is mandatory for the top 1,000 listed companies in India.

⁷⁵ SEBI Circular CIR/CFD/DIL/8/2012 on 13 August 2012 about Business Responsibility Reports, para 5(a).

⁷⁶ B Charumathi and Habeeb Rahman, ‘Climate Change Related Disclosure by Large Indian Companies – Pre and Post Business Responsibility Reporting and Paris Climate Accord’ (2017) 32 Journal of Accounting and Finance. A study that was conducted to measure the level of climate change disclosure by Indian Companies and their hypothesis stating that there was no significant difference was proved wrong.

⁷⁷ Ministry of Corporate Affairs, NGRBC (2019) 11.

⁷⁸ ibid.

⁷⁹ ibid 12.

⁸⁰ ibid 25.

⁸¹ ibid.

⁸² ’Report of the committee on Business Responsibility Reporting’ (Ministry of Corporate Affairs 2020) 32–33 <https://www.mca.gov.in/bin/dms/getdocument?mds=oP%252F649ASvgjX93vPHMV6oQ%253D%253D&type=open> accessed 21 October 2023.

⁸³ Annexure II: Guidance Note for Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting Format. Securities Exchange Board of India Circular, SEBI/HO/CFD/CMD-2/P/CIR/2021/562, 10 May 2021, Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting by listed entities.

⁸⁴ ibid 28.

⁸⁵ ibid 64.

⁸⁶ SEBI Circular SEBI/HO/CFD/CMD-2/P/CIR/2021/562 (n 18).

⁸⁷ ibid, annexure I.

⁸⁸ ibid, annexure II.

⁸⁹ SEBI Circular (n 75).

⁹⁰ ibid.

⁹¹ LODR Regulations, reg 34(3).

⁹² ibid, sch V.

⁹³ ’Annual Report & Accounts (2020–2021): Coal India Limited’ (n 35) 197.

⁹⁴ ibid 47.

⁹⁵ Reading the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act 1956, s 2(f) and s 4, a stock exchange is one which is for the time being recognized by the Central Government.

⁹⁶ LODR Regulations, regs 97(1)–(2).

⁹⁷ ibid, reg 98(1).

⁹⁸ ’The Road to Action: Financial Regulation Addressing Climate Change’ (2017) 23 <https://impact.econ-asia.com/perspectives/sites/default/files/The%20road%20to%20action%20-%20WEB.pdf> accessed 3 October 2023.

⁹⁹ Robert G Eccles and Timothy Youmans, ‘Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality’ (2016) 28(2) Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 39.

¹⁰⁰ ’Position Paper: Materiality and Climate-Related Financial Disclosures’ (CDSB, 2018) 3 <https://www.cdsb.net/sites/default/files/materiality_and_tcfd_paper.pdf> accessed 23 January 2024.

¹⁰¹ ibid 16, 17.

¹⁰² LODR Regulations, reg 30(4).

¹⁰³ ibid, reg 30(4)(i).

¹⁰⁴ ’Final Report: Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures’ (n 23).

¹⁰⁵ N Narayanan v SEBI (2013) 12 SCC 152.

¹⁰⁶ SEBI Circular SEBI/HO/CFD/CMD1/CIR/P/2020/84 on 20 May 2020 advisory on disclosure of material impact of COVID-19 pandemic on listed entities under SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations 2015.

¹⁰⁷ The Tata Power Company Limited, ‘Policy for Determining Materiality for Disclosures [Pursuant to Regulation 30 of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosures Requirements) Regulations, 2015]’ (The Tata Power Company Limited, w.e.f. 14 July 2023) <https://www.tatapower.com/pdf/aboutus/determining-policy.pdf> accessed 23 January 2024.

¹⁰⁸ Communication to Stock Exchange under Reg 30 of LODR Regulations from The Tata Power Company Limited, ‘Disclosure on Material Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Operations’ (24 June 2020) <https://www.tatapower.com/pdf/investor-relations/IUR-covid-19-24jun20.pdf> accessed 23 January 2024.

¹⁰⁹ Communication to Stock Exchange under Reg. 30 of LODR Regulations from The Tata Power Company Limited, ‘Sale of Entire Stake in Arutmin and Associated Companies in Coal Trading and Infrastructure’ (5 November 2020) <https://www.tatapower.com/pdf/investor-relations/04-IUR-30-05nov20.pdf> accessed 22 October 2023.

¹¹⁰ ibid.

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¹¹² ibid.

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¹¹⁵ ’Final Report: Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures’ (n 23).

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¹²⁵ OECD, ‘Managing Climate Risks, Facing up to Losses and Damages: Understanding, Reducing and Managing Risks’ (November 2021) <https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/managing-climate-risks-facing-up-to-losses-and-damages_55ea1cc9-en> accessed 23 January 2024.

¹²⁶ Achenbach (n 121).

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¹³¹ Armour, Enriques and Wetzer (n 120).

¹³² Allen Ferrell, ‘The Case for Mandatory Disclosure in Securities Regulation Around the World’ [2004] SSRN Electronic Journal <http://www.ssrn.com/abstract=631221> accessed 23 January 2024.

¹³³ Merritt B Fox, ‘Retaining Mandatory Securities Disclosure: Why Issuer Choice Is Not Investor Empowerment’ (1999) 85(7) Virginia Law Review 1335.

¹³⁴ Archon Fung and others, ‘The Political Economy of Transparency: What Makes Disclosure Policies Effective?’ (Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2004) <https://ash.harvard.edu/files/political_econ_transparency.pdf> accessed 12 January 2024.

¹³⁵ ibid.

¹³⁶ Jill E Fisch, ‘Making Sustainability Disclosure Sustainable’ (2018) 107 Georgetown Law Journal 923.

¹³⁷ ’Disclose What Matters: Bridging the Gap between Investor Needs and Company Disclosures on Sustainability’ (n 13).