Emmanuel Faber, chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), used a keynote address at the Frankfurt Sustainability Standards Conference on 29 May to make a confident case for sustainability disclosure standards, as the political winds around ESG continue to shift.
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the IFRS Foundation have issued a joint statement setting out how GRI and ISSB standards can be used together to deliver efficient, comprehensive sustainability reporting for investors and wider stakeholders.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), recently published initial observations drawn from the very first sustainability reports submitted under the country’s new compulsory disclosure program.
Speaking at the 2026 Beijing International Sustainability Conference on 11 May, International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) chair Emmanuel Faber outlined new initiatives and reviewed the ongoing development in global sustainability reporting.
Bangladesh’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has launched a pre-publication consultation on the adoption of IFRS 18 Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements, IFRS 19, and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards IFRS S1 and IFRS S2.
Accountancy Europe has launched a dedicated online hub to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) navigate the sustainability reporting landscape. Bringing together useful guidance, tools and resources in one place, the hub is designed to ease the adoption of the Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard for SMEs (VSME).
Take a Volkswagen ID.4. Lovely car. Very sustainable. Now drive it to the moon and back. Nineteen times. You will need snacks. And… oxygen. You’ll also need roughly 2.7 million kWh of electricity, which, by a coincidence that borders on the poetic, is about how much AI energy just two jurisdictions will waste every reporting […]
Nepal has become the latest jurisdiction to join the growing global movement for ISSB-aligned sustainability reporting, with the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) of Nepal publishing exposure drafts for two new standards: NFRS S1, covering general requirements for the disclosure of sustainability-related financial information, and NFRS S2, covering climate-related disclosures.
The world of GHG accounting has long been characterised by a frustrating abundance of frameworks. While they are compatible in intent, they differ enough to make comparison challenging and expensive. A collaboration to alter that is gathering pace.
The Swiss Federal Council has issued proposals for new sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements, closely aligned with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
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