ISSB champions global baseline at Beijing sustainability summit
Emmanuel Faber, Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), delivered a powerful speech at the Beijing International Sustainability Conference on 4 July, celebrating the global momentum behind the ISSB Standards and calling for shared responsibility in safeguarding a common sustainability reporting language.
Speaking to a global audience, Faber thanked early adopters – from Nigeria to Hong Kong to China – for their trust and leadership. He highlighted that 33 jurisdictions have now profiled their use of the ISSB Standards, with many more preparing to join. This growing international alignment, he stressed, reflects a remarkable collective achievement – which now demands vertical growth within each jurisdiction to embed the standards deeply and widely.
Faber emphasised that the ISSB Standards represent a global public good. Their value lies in their ability to enable high-quality, comparable, decision-useful sustainability data across borders. That comparability is essential for efficient capital allocation and effective risk management in a world where capital markets are more interconnected than ever.
We might add that global consistency in digital sustainability disclosures is not just desirable, it’s essential. High-quality, structured data that travels across jurisdictions marked up using the same digital tags is the only way to make ESG truly comparable and actionable.
Read Emmanuel Faber’s speech here.
