Legal firm fumes as it reports Balfour Beatty to City watchdog for not talking about climate change enough

By Will Ing2018-09-19T06:00:00

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Country’s biggest contractor could be asked to bring out new version of annual report

Balfour Beatty has been reported to the Financial Reporting Council – for not mentioning climate change enough in its annual report.

London firm Client Earth, a not-for-profit legal practise, says scant reference to climate change in Balfour’s annual report contravenes the contractor’s responsibility to report on business risks to their investors.

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