Question

BlackRock is the world's largest asset management corporation. In January 2020, Larry Fink, the CEO and Chairman of BlackRock, issued an annual letter titled "A Fundamental Reshaping of Finance"1 to Chief Executives of companies in which BlackRock invests. In this letter, BlackRock announces several sustainability initiatives, recognises climate risk as investment risk, and urges companies to improve their financial disclosure to shareholders in relation to climate risks. As part of the initiatives, BlackRock begins to exit investments that present a high sustainability-related risk, such as thermal coal producers. The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) commented that BlackRock's initiatives might lead to review and likely divestment of Australian coal companies such as Whitehaven Coal and Yancoal.

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Assume you are a business consultant, reporting to the board of directors of Yancoal Australia Limited, Australia's largest pure-coal producer. Yancoal is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. You have been contracted to provide a report to Yancoal's Board of Directors which:

1. Evaluates, taking an institutional theory lens, whether Yancoal will provide climate-change-related risk disclosures.

Answer 1

Answer to question

Yes, Yancoal will provide climate-change-related risk disclosures.

in the question its given that BlackRock announces several sustainability initiatives, recognises climate risk as investment risk, and urges companies to improve their financial disclosure to shareholders in relation to climate risks. As part of the initiatives, BlackRock begins to exit investments that present a high sustainability-related risk, such as thermal coal producers. The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) commented that BlackRock's initiatives might lead to review and likely divestment of Australian coal companies such as Whitehaven Coal and Yancoal.

based on above Yancoal will provide climate-change-related risk disclosures.