Archive

  • Comment: Mind the audit 'expectation gap': Will sustainability assurance open the floodgates for greenwashing?

    02 September 2024

    Some industry stakeholders are expressing concerns, in private conversations, about how the nascent market for mandatory assurance of sustainability information can blow up in our faces in the form of an unexpected under the counter greenwashing.

  • UN Global Compact Network UK issues guide to the new era of sustainability reporting

    01 August 2024

    As standardised and mandatory requirements for companies to undertake sustainability reporting have arrived, this year 2024 is being thought of as the 'year of implementation'.

  • Nick Anderson discusses IASB's proposed illustrative examples on climate

    31 July 2024

    The IASB has today published for consultation eight illustrative examples to illustrate how companies should apply IFRS Accounting Standards when reporting the effects of climate-related and other uncertainties in their financial statements.

  • ERM's five-step strategy for CSRD support

    18 July 2024

    How the sustainability consultancy approaches supporting EU clients with their imminent sustainability reporting requirements

  • Comment: For all the drum rolls and trumpets, one can't help to hear the pipe

    30 May 2024

    It's the nature of all press conferences: you shed the light on what you want people to see and focus on, and you make sure that light doesn't move no matter what.

  • Direction of travel on sustainability reporting clear, though puzzle still being pieced together

    22 May 2024

    Kristina Wyatt, ex-SEC lawyer and chief sustainability officer at Persefoni, discusses sustainability reporting from California to the US SEC, and from the ISSB to EFRAG

  • Measuring, monetising and attributing impacts in the financial sector

    09 April 2024

    Tjeerd Krumpelman, ABN AMRO's former head of reporting, regulations and stakeholder management, outlines the reasoning and the methodology behind the Dutch bank's Impact Report

  • IESBA slicing the elephant to move one piece at a time

    03 April 2024

    Gabriela Figueiredo Dias, Chair of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA), discusses the standard setter's work on ethics standards for sustainability reporting and assurance, and its strategic vision to become a profession agnostic ethics standard setter.

  • Interview with IPSASB chair

    28 March 2024

    Ian Carruthers, chair of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board, discusses the standards setter's efforts with sustainability disclosures

  • Comment: A Pythonesque take on IASB/ISSB joint meeting

    23 February 2024

    Featuring the the knights of the square standard setting table