A proposed reporting standard that seeks to unlock accountability for the impacts organizations have on the natural world, informing the global response to a deepening biodiversity crisis, has been made available. A public comment period for the exposure draft of >>> read more

The European Council gave its final approval to the corporate sustainability reporting directive (CSRD). This means that companies will soon be required to publish detailed information on sustainability matters. This will increase a company’s accountability, prevent divergent sustainability standards, and ease the >>> read more

A delve into the early years – with Folkert van der Molen With GRI’s 25th anniversary milestone reached in September, we continue the look back on the journey that has led to where we are today. An important stage was a decision to >>> read more

EFRAG is pleased to announce that it submitted the first set of draft ESRS to the European Commission yesterday in its role as technical adviser to the European Commission. This first set, approved by the EFRAG SRB, supported by the >>> read more

G&A is pleased to share the 11th annual edition of our research series tracking the sustainability reporting trends of the largest U.S. publicly-traded companies. For the entire Russell 1000 Index, 81% of the Russell 1000 companies published a sustainability report >>> read more

All large companies in the EU will need to disclose data on the impact of their activities on people and the planet and any sustainability risks they are exposed to. The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), adopted today by the >>> read more

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) unanimously confirmed that companies will be required to use climate-related scenario analysis to inform resilience analysis.  At the supplementary board meeting held on 1 November 2022, the ISSB voted to confirm that companies are required to >>> read more

A major stocktake on the state of sustainability reporting around the world has revealed that GRI provides the ‘first and foremost’ global standards, used by more large companies than ever before. The KPMG Survey of Sustainability Reporting (published 26 October) examined the >>> read more

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) announces the launch of its Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) pilot program with 23 of its member companies. The companies, with a total market value of USD$ 1.3 trillion and from North and >>> read more

The latest findings from KPMG reveal that sustainability reporting has grown steadily, with 79 percent of leading companies providing sustainability reports Among the thousands of reports analyzed, less than half of the world’s largest companies are providing reporting on ‘social’ >>> read more

WBCSD is celebrating 10 years of Reporting matters, WBCSD’s annual review of its member companies’ sustainability and integrated reports in partnership with Radley Yeldar (RY). To mark the occasion, they are publishing the findings of their annual Reporting matters 2022 report, commemorating >>> read more

A publication of Jilde Garst, PhD, Karen Maas and Jeroen Suijs from the Impact Centre Erasmus is now online at California Management Review. In this article, they present the six main steps of materiality assessments for ESG reporting, the methods used, >>> read more