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  • 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

  • The Missing "T" in ESG

    03 June 2024

    The companies that are widely perceived as saviors of the ESG era are in fact the cause of some of the main deficiencies ESG seeks to redress, according to research by Danielle A. Chaim & Gideon Parchomovsky

  • 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

  • US SEC staff break down climate disclosure rule

    10 April 2024

    Chief accountant and corporate finance director outline the individual requirements introduced by the newly adopted regulation

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

    23 February 2024

    Featuring the the knights of the square standard setting table

  • Float like a butterfly sting like the BEES: can the ISSB learn from the Rumble in the Jungle?

    06 February 2024

    As EFRAG seeks alignment with the TNFD framework, is the ISSB down for the count in the global sustainability reporting arena?

  • Inside GRI's new energy and climate standards

    11 December 2023

    Harold Pauwels, GRI director of standards, outlines the new disclosures that have been brought in and explains the reasons for the updates