IFRS Foundation Launches Guide to Help Companies Voluntarily Apply ISSB Sustainability Reporting Standards – ESG Today

The IFRS Basis introduced at this time the publication of a brand new information geared toward serving to firms to voluntarily apply the Worldwide Sustainability Requirements Board’s (ISSB) lately issued local weather and sustainability-related disclosure requirements and talk their progress to buyers.

The IFRS Basis’s Worldwide Sustainability Requirements Board was launched in November 2021, with the aim to develop IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Requirements to supply buyers with details about firms’ sustainability dangers and alternatives. The IFRS launched the inaugural normal sustainability (IFRS S1) and local weather (IFRS S2) reporting requirements in June 2023.

For the reason that launch final yr, a number of regulators globally have introduced plans to make the most of the requirements, with the IFRS reporting in Might 2024 that greater than 20 jurisdictions have determined to make use of the ISSB requirements, or are taking steps to introduce the requirements in their very own frameworks, with the jurisdictions representing almost 55% of world GDP, greater than 40% of world market capitalization, and over half of world greenhouse fuel emissions.

In accordance with the IFRS Basis, its new publication, “Voluntarily making use of ISSB Requirements—A information for preparers,” goals to supply a device for firms, significantly in jurisdictions with out regulatory necessities to use ISSB Requirements, to satisfy investor demand to supply sustainability reporting according to the brand new rising requirements. The IFRS Basis famous that a number of main buyers, together with BlackRock, Vanguard, Capital Group and Neuberger Berman have inspired utility of ISSB Requirements by proxy voting pointers.

ISSB Chair Emmanuel Faber mentioned:

“Corporations around the globe already present buyers with sustainability-related info in response to investor demand. Nevertheless, they use a patchwork of frameworks and requirements to take action, leaving buyers unable to match the efficiency and prospects of firms. With many frameworks and requirements now consolidated into the ISSB, the voluntary utility information helps firms navigate from their present reporting practices to making use of ISSB Requirements, offering a cheap route for firms to supply decision-useful, assurable monetary info to buyers.”

Click on right here to entry the brand new information.