Login

Items tagged with "Sustainability"

MAS publishes Climate Risk Guidance

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued finalised Environmental Risk Management Guidelines for banks.

Read more


ESMA supports International Sustainability Standards (and XBRL)

This week the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a supportive response to the IFRS Foundation’s consultation on establishing a new Sustainability Standards Board (SSB).

Read more


Speech: The Paradoxes Plaguing Sustainability Reporting

The past year has seen growing consensus on the need for non-financial reporting standards in order to mitigate climate-related financial risks and help investors divert capital towards more sustainable ends. However, sustainability reporting is a complicated task, and a number of difficult questions need to be answered before effective standards can be established.

Read more


SEC ESG Committee advocates Standards

In other sustainability standards news, the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Asset Management Advisory Committee recently published its recommendations on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) disclosure.

Read more


Sustainability Data Webinar

15th December, 2020

Want to know more about how machine-readable sustainability data will be prepared, reported and analysed in practice? As demand for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data continues to grow amongst investors globally the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has begun work on an XBRL taxonomy designed to represent its set of 77 industry standards. Sign […]

Read more


IFRS Foundation aims for coherence, not complexity

Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) CEO, Janine Guillot, believes that the IFRS Foundation’s Consultation Paper on Sustainability Reporting is the most significant development in accounting standard-setting since the creation the IASB in 2001. And, with the stakes this high, she argues that it’s crucial to get it right.

Read more


UK supports Sustainability Standards

This week has seen a flurry of new developments in the UK’s sustainability reporting space, taking the country another step closer to the useful, comparable, environmental data investors and regulators need.

Read more


Third TCFD Status Report shows momentum

This week the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) published its annual Status Report, showing significant growth in the number of supporting organisations and amount of investor demand.

Read more


ESG Standards would support Bank Stress Tests

Banks’ ability to carry out climate change related stress tests could be vastly improved by standardisation of corporate ESG risk disclosures, according to a new report published by Fitch Ratings.

Read more


The Route to reliable Non-Financial Information

To achieve the world’s current carbon-neutral goals, we need high-quality non-financial data in order to assess businesses’ impact on environmental and social matters.

Read more



Newsletter
Newsletter

Would you like
to learn more?

Join our Newsletter mailing list to
stay plugged in to the latest
information about XBRL around the world.

By clicking submit you agree to the XBRL International privacy policy which can be found at xbrl.org/privacy