On 27th January, 15 years to the day after CDSB's formation, we hosted an event to celebrate the completion of our mission and the sunsetting of our organisation into the IFRS Foundation to support the work of the International Sustainability Standards Board.
Read the detailed summary of the announcement made at COP26 in Glasgow
The integration of SASB and the IIRC under the VRF represents another step towards a unified set of global sustainability standards.
Today the IFRS Foundation has invited CDSB to join a working group to accelerate convergence in global sustainability reporting.
IOSCO sees an urgent need for globally consistent, comparable, and reliable sustainability disclosure standards and announces its priorities and vision for a Sustainability Standards Board under the IFRS Foundation.
Through extensive global stakeholder engagement and 576 comment letters submitted, the IFRS Foundation’s Trustees have seen broad demand for the IFRS Foundation to play a role in creating a globally consistent sustainability reporting landscape.
Mardi McBrien, Managing Director of CDSB, comments on the formation of the Value Reporting Foundation, announced by SASB and IIRC, and the role of CDSB.
29th October 2020 – The International Organisation of Securities Commissions has today endorsed efforts by the world’s most widely used ESG standards and the IFRS Foundation to align sustainability reporting globally.
CDSB's Managing Director, Mardi McBrien, speaks about the release of the Better Alignment Project report "Driving Alignment in Climate-related Reporting".
Better Alignment Project report released today shows high levels of alignment between the frameworks on the basis of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations
The position paper sets out the seven key principles report preparers should follow for achieving such transparency and accountability.
Participants of the Corporate Reporting Dialogue will announce the findings of their global market consultation on building better alignment via a webinar on Tuesday 25 June 2019.
Six-week global consultation process including online surveys and roundtables
New study shows that sustainability and integrated reporting have increased in Japan due to market drivers and investor expectations
The explosion of reporting practices is a natural reaction to the desire for things to change – for companies to be accountable for their impacts on the economy, society and the environment and for value to be created for all stakeholders.
Major international corporate reporting standard setters and framework providers have today announced a ground-breaking new two-year project focused on driving better alignment in the corporate reporting landscape, to make it easier for companies to prepare effective and coherent disclosures that meet the information needs of capital markets and society.
Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) released its second report as part of a series called Insights from the Reporting Exchange.
Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) released a new report that maps global and regional Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting trends.
We have launched the Reporting Exchange, a new global platform dedicated to sustainability reporting, providing information about environmental, social and governance reporting requirements and resources
SASB Chair Dr Jean Rogers has joined, further strengthening the alignment between the two organizations.
Prof. Carol Adams, member of CDSB's Technical Working Group, shares her views on the Task Force recommendations and harmonisation in the reporting world
EU and international experts discussed the relevance and interaction of the various existing non-financial and sustainability reporting frameworks at a recent ACCA-CDSB roundtable in Brussels.
With more and more sustainability reporting initiatives emerging, we put together 7 fundamentals that businesses can follow to stay above the flow and succeed in reporting.
ACCA & CDSB ask whether the fragmentation of the reporting landscape is resulting in the discipline failing to fulfil its potential.
In the wake of the Paris climate agreement, ClientEarth, along with partners, has written to a European financial authority urging it to promote climate risk disclosures from fossil fuel companies across the EU.
WBCSD is seeking to partner with a software development agency to facilitate the development of a web tool, database and other supporting resources.
WBCSD and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) are developing a web-based tool and database to help business understand and navigate the complex and fragmented corporate sustainability reporting landscape.
CDSB has shown how the most widely used corporate natural capital-related reporting approaches align to help companies.
CDSB responds to market calls for better alignment and reducing burden in corporate reporting.
In October 2009 the European Commission set the objective for the EU and industrialized countries to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80-95% by 2050 compared to levels in 1990. Germany set a higher goal, planning to completely decarbonize its national economy by 2050.
CDSB has become a supporter of the Natural Capital Declaration (NCD), with the primary focus of building a global consensus around natural capital reporting requirements.
Partnership focuses on the integration of sustainability information into mainstream corporate reporting.
The Consistency Project allows investors to compare and collect climate change information, providing greater clarity on risky ventures.
