IFAC encourages a building blocks approach for reporting sustainability-related information
07 May 2021
In September 2020, the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) released 'Enhancing Corporate Reporting: The Way Forward' calling for the creation of a new sustainability standards board that would exist alongside the IASB under the IFRS Foundation. The IFAC has now published a revised building blocks approach to reporting sustainability information — enhancing its previously issued roadmap.
As in the predecessor publication, IFAC continues to support a new standard-setting board under the IFRS Foundation that can lead to the coordination and harmonisation of reporting and provide a baseline of requirements addressing sustainability information that is material to enterprise value. With the new publication, IFAC hopes to foster discussion on how the building blocks approach can deliver a global system for consistent, comparable, and assurable sustainability-related information that best meets the needs of investors and other stakeholders.
Please click to access Enhancing Corporate Reporting: Sustainability Building Blocks and a corresponding press release on the IFAC website.