COVID-19 has intensified focus on sustainable finance and sustainability reporting.  The stream of social media posts, articles in the FT and press releases by connected organisations have increased.  The #BuildBackBetter hashtag is being used to advocate for economic interventions post >>> read more

Sustainable Brands ® (SB) and SOCAP Global (SOCAP) jointly announce the formation of a partnership to bring to market Integrate 2020, the evolution of SB’s New Metrics conference, now in its 8th year. The vision for this virtual conference is to address the >>> read more

GRI, provider of the world’s leading standards for sustainability reporting, has expressed full support for the European Commission’s plans to revise the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), for which a public consultation closed on 11 June. This process sought views from >>> read more

Janine Guillot (CEO of the SASB Foundation) states that the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) can lay the foundation for a Global ESG Disclosure Solution. Companies around the world are increasingly reporting on their sustainability performance. However, we still hear >>> read more

The Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), GRI’s independent standard-setting body, is pleased to announce that a public comment period to gather feedback on the exposure draft of the revised Universal Standards (GRI 101, 102, 103) is now open for feedback. >>> read more

The EU Green Deal, climate neutrality, sustainable economic growth, and inclusion of all countries, a classification system for sustainable activities fulfils a key role, i.e. an EU Taxonomy. In March this year, the Technical Expert Group (TEG) on Sustainable Finance >>> read more

The European Banking Federation (EBF) responded to the European Commission consultation on the Review of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD). Key Messages General recommendations Regulation instead of Directive Consistency of disclosure requirements across EU legislation  (alignment with EU Taxonomy Regulation, Disclosure >>> read more

The European Banking Federation, together with five other financial industry associations, is calling for the European Commission to establish a common ESG data register in the European Union to enhance the availability of relevant and reliable ESG data, facilitate disclosure >>> read more

105 investors from 23 countries, including Legal & General, Nordea Asset Management and the New York State Common Retirement Fund, are pressing for companies with a high impact on the environment to disclose data through CDP, the non-profit global environmental disclosure platform. >>> read more

A recent article in the Financial Times neatly pinpoints an underlying problem with sustainability reporting: the proliferation of frameworks that threaten to overwhelm investors and reporters. In the view of XBRL (the business reporting standard), it comes down to the >>> read more

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants’ (ACCA) latest report Insights into Integrated Reporting 4.0, covers 48 companies – each are members of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) Business Network. As economies and companies around the world prepare for imminent recession >>> read more

The EU Commission initiated the reform of the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD). The severity of COVID-19 and its economic and social consequences have underlined the need to further and strengthen our efforts. The undersigned civil society organisations welcome this >>> read more