Opinion

  • Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, sustainability assurance after ESRS-light

    22 June 2023

    Corporate Disclosures travels to Brussels and take the pulse on the back of the publication of the CSRD delegated act by the EU Commission

  • The battle of sustainability assurance: audit firms 'versus' other providers

    22 June 2023

    Accountancy Europe deputy CEO Hilde Blomme and IFAC director for Sustainability, Policy & Regulatory Affairs David Madon discuss the sustainability assurance ecosystem and the role of and implications of regulation for the different stakeholders.

  • IFAC backs zero corruption to be 18th SDG campaign

    29 May 2023

    Scott Hanson, director, global engagement and policy at IFAC, discusses the role of anti-corruption reporting, on the back of the launch of a report reviewing current practices.

  • Comment: US SEC has an impossible job on climate disclosures

    17 May 2023

    A year on from its announcement, political divisiveness and legal threats have made the possibility of robust climate disclosure standards in the US increasingly remote

  • CSSB chair on plan for Canada's ISSB adoption

    03 May 2023

    Charles-Antoine St-Jean, newly appointed chair of the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board, discusses, on a personal capacity, his priorities for the board and his vision for ISSB adoption in Canada

  • 'IR' the forgotten jewel in the sustainability reporting crown?

    02 May 2023

    As the ISSB consults on its agenda priorities, including a project on 'integration in reporting', the first CEO of the International Integrated Reporting Council, Paul Druckman, shares his worries over losing the IR principles, and his hopes for the legacy of that work.

  • Implementing Australian climate reporting standards

    31 March 2023

    Keith Kendall, chair of the Australian Accounting Standards Board, spoke on a personal capacity with Corporate Disclosures on the process of adopting ISSB standards and the prospect of governing climate reporting in Australia

  • Yasunobu Kawanishi fields EFRAG's questions on Japanese sustainability standards

    31 March 2023

    The chair of the Accounting Standards Board of Japan and the Sustainability Standards Board of Japan, Yasunobu Kawanishi, presented to the EFRAG sustainability reporting board (SRB) Japan's approach to sustainability reporting standards before answering questions from the SRB.

  • Comment: Blackrock's Fink embraces multi-stakeholder reporting

    15 March 2023

    Blackrock CEO Larry Fink's annual letter is out and although it addresses the most urgent issues of our times

  • ICGN to remind sustainability standard setters not to forget the 'G' in ESG

    09 March 2023

    At the end of ICGN Stockholm Conference, CEO Kerrie Waring and chair of the board Ian Burger sat down with Corporate Disclosures to share their key takeaways and priorities for the months to come. Interview by Vincent Huck