SPRG NEXT SESSION | Navigating New Sustainability Disclosure Requirements
Sustainability disclosure (including formal reports, regulatory information provision, investor and sustainability rating requests) has been with us for quite a while, but it is growing in both importance and complexity.
The recent developments of the European Regulation CSRD, the release of the IFRS’s ISSB (International Sustainability Standards Board) Disclosure Standards and the United States SEC climate disclosure requirements have meant that sustainability disclosure is not just the province of sustainability professionals, but a topic that requires the involvement of organisational leadership, together with functions from across businesses.
But the picture remains complicated, which standards must or should you report to, how do you navigate the complexity and how can you ensure the right information, in the right way to the right audiences?
In our session on the 12th September we are honoured to have an expert in the disclosure space to help us to identify effective disclosure practices, Lois Guthrie*.
We'll be taking a look at what the new requirements are, their commonalities and differences and identifying the fundamental elements that are required to ensure good practice, including:
Understanding the sustainability disclosure landscape.
Implications for company processes and practices.
Meaning and sense-making: ensuring meaningful narrative.
*Lois was the founding director of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board and also worked for the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) during the development of the Framework.
She was a director at the WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) for five years and joined the IFRS Foundation in February 2022 as a Special Advisor to the International Sustainability Standards Board.
Having left the IFRS Foundation in December 2023, Lois now works as an independent consultant advising on corporate disclosure of sustainability-related information and delivering training with the UN Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative.
