Background
- Climate change brings major risks for the public sector, and governments’ approaches are developing rapidly. It presents particular challenges for auditors because of the complex, widespread & long-term changes it involves, with links to wider emerging issues of auditing resilience.
- This grouping provides a regular and informal network to support the topic of auditing climate change.
Objective
The objectives of the project group are to support:
- Horizon scanning: to build our collective understanding of climate change developments that could affect risks for government and our audits.
- International benchmarking: to build our collective understanding of where there might be good practice in how governments’ approach their climate obligations, and in how they identify and respond to climate risk.
- Networking: a regular and informal opportunity to colleagues in other SAIs working on climate change.