Corporate Sustainability Reporting Standards
Chapter
Global sustainability reporting standards: on the threshold of a new era of internationally coherent regulation? (For the World’s Profit, Chapter 9)
Brookings Institution Press
Chapter on the current state and future prospects of corporate sustainability reporting standards in a Brookings edited volume about the role of the private sector in advancing international development and the SDGs.
Book
Sustainable Enterprise Value Creation: Implementing Stakeholder Capitalism through Full ESG Integration
Palgrave Macmillan, WEF
This book provides the most thorough treatment to date of the practical implications for corporate boards and management teams of a commitment to implement the concepts of sustainable enterprise value creation and stakeholder capitalism rigorously -- i.e., by walking the talk in corporate governance, strategy, reporting and partnerships.
Chapter
Corporate Reporting and Accountability (Sustainable Enterprise Value Creation, Chapter 6)
Palgrave Macmillan, ILO
A practical guide for companies wishing to apply best practice in respect of their sustainability reporting.
Video
Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) is sunsetting
IFRSF, Youtube
Event marking the mission-accomplished sunsetting of the CDSB through its integration into the new IFRSF International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).
Press Clip
Birth of a standard: Where the ISSB came from and what it will do
EuroMoney
Good analysis of the provenance of the IFRS Foundation's International Sustainability Standards Board and the important role therein of the organization I founded and chaired, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board.
Video
Launch of International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) at COP26
IFRS Foundation, Youtube
Joint announcement of the IFRS Foundation's decision to establish a new International Sustainability Standards Board, integrating the intellectual property and staff of CDSB and VRF. Participating in my capacity as CDSB Chairman and with IFRS Foundation Chairman Erkki Liikanen, Value Reporting Foundation Co-Chair Richard Sexton and Impact Management Project CEO and IFRSF advisor Clara Barby.
Article
Integrated Corporate Governance: Six Leadership Priorities for Boards Beyond the Crisis
Forbes
Harvard's Jane Nelson and I outline a six-point leadership agenda for corporate boards seeking to strengthen their firms’ long-term competitiveness and resilience in the face of a number of systemic societal challenges reshaping the operating context of business in the 2020s.
Press Clip
Disclosure Is About Risks And Opportunities, Not Politics
Forbes
Samans comments in a Forbes article regarding the political backlash against ESG in the US.