Michael Kraten

Two weeks ago, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs declared a freeze on the development of certain new homes in the Phoenix suburbs. Apparently, climate change’s imposition of drought conditions on the American West is constricting the public water supply and imperiling economic growth.

by Michael Kraten, PhD, CPA What is the most common complaint heard about the current state of sustainability reporting standards? It may be the bloated number of free-standing, independent, overlapping, and often conflicting standards. Regrettably, no single entity has yet emerged as the clear consensus choice for defining corporate disclosures. There were hopes, though, that this situation would have improved two weeks…