CRD announces two-year project for better alignment

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08 Nov 2018

At the World Congress of Accountants in Sydney, Australia, the Corporate Reporting Dialogue (CRD), which brings together organisations that have significant international influence on the corporate reporting landscape, has announced two-year project focused on aligning the standards and frameworks of its members.

The Corporate Reporting Dialogue was launched in June 2014 as a way to achieve dialogue and alignment between some of the key standard-setters and framework developers around the world. It includes the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB, observer), the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), and is convened by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC).

CRD participants hold regular meetings to share their views and provide further cooperation. They have already released a common map of the reporting landscape (May 2015) and a materiality statement (March 2016). Under the new project, participants will work on aligning their standards with the recommendations published by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) in June 2017. They will map their respective sustainability standards and frameworks to identify the commonalities and differences between them, jointly refining and continuously improving overlapping disclosures and data points to achieve better alignment, taking into account the different focuses, audiences and governance procedures.

Importantly, participants will also identify how non-financial metrics relate to financial outcomes and how this can be integrated in mainstream reports. This work will be undertaken with the overview of financial standard-setters with the ultimate aim of integrating financial and non-financial reporting.

Please click for the participants' joint press release on the IIRC website.

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