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  • Bank of Canada encourages regulator to tighten climate disclosure rules

    13 June 2022

    The Bank of Canada has urged the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) to tighten climate risk disclosure rules or else Canadian firms will struggle to attract enough capital to finance their transition.

  • Companies should ready Scope 3 disclosures, says ERM

    10 June 2022

    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.

  • Inaugural ISSB members appointed

    08 June 2022

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

  • IFRS Foundation 'at odds' with academics on sustainability standards

    23 May 2022

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

  • Mandate private market disclosures, says LSEG

    11 May 2022

    Policymakers globally should introduce mandatory sustainability disclosure regimes that cover private markets as much as public markets, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has urged.

  • NBIM backs ISSB enterprise value approach

    25 April 2022

    Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has said it supports the IFRS Foundation's focus on sustainability factors that affect a company's 'enterprise value' as the standard setter develops 'baseline' global sustainability standards.

  • ISSB gets Montreal base

    07 April 2022

  • ISSB publishes 'landmark' draft sustainability disclosures

    31 March 2022

    The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has published proposals that aim to provide the financial markets with a global baseline of sustainability disclosures when finalised.

  • GRI and IFRS to collaborate on global sustainability standards

    24 March 2022

    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.

  • ISSB readies draft standards for March release

    15 March 2022

    The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is set to publish a draft of its "game changing" standards for climate reporting later this month.