IIRC and SASB intend to merge

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25 Nov 2020

The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) have announced their intention to merge into the Value Reporting Foundation, a unified organisation intended to provide investors and corporates with a comprehensive corporate reporting framework across the full range of enterprise value drivers and standards.

The merger is aimed at advancing the work of CDP, CDSB, GRI, IIRC and SASB who in September 2020 released a statement of intent to work together towards comprehensive corporate reporting in a comprehensive corporate reporting system.

The press release notes that Value Reporting Foundation will maintain the IIRC integrated reporting framework that describes all relevant value creation topics and the approach to integrating them in corporate reporting while the SASB standards provide the precise definitions of the data that should be reported for these topics in each industry. The framework and the standards will remain complementary tools with the Value Reporting Foundation facilitating the use of both together.

The merger responds to the ever increasing calls from global investors and corporates to simplify the corporate reporting landscape by having a globally aligned reporting system. The press release stresses that the Value Reporting Foundation, which will be formed by mid-2021, stands ready to work with the IFRS Foundation, IOSCO, EFRAG, CDP, CDSB, and GRI, and others to work towards a set of global and globally accepted standards.

Please click to access the full press release on the SASB website (an identical press release is available on the IIRC website).

GRI and CDSB have posted congratulatory notes to their websites.

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