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The recently released recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) will need to be "filtered" before being integrated into the standards created by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), one of the IFRS Foundation's directors has suggested.

Lee White, executive director at the IFRS Foundation, shares the latest ISSB updates in this interview at Environmental Finance's ESG Data 2022 conference in London

IFRS Foundation head Lee White gives his assessment of some of the challenges facing the International Sustainability Standards Board. Peter Cripps reports

The IFRS Foundation has completed its absorption of the Value Reporting Foundation, in the latest step in the consolidation of the myriad of sustainability disclosure initiatives.

More companies will be urged to undertake scope 3 emissions disclosures under new international standards and should ramp up their preparations to meet these demands, according to ERM.

The four inaugural members of the body developing global baseline sustainability reporting standards have been appointed.

The Integrated Reporting framework is to become part of the IFRS Foundation, as part of broader efforts to promote convergence of sustainability reporting standards.

The IFRS Foundation has been criticised for failing to consider the views of academics as it prepared to devise global baseline sustainability reporting standards.

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the IFRS Foundation have agreed to work together to develop a global baseline for investor-focused sustainability reporting standards.