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IFRS Foundation webcast highlights importance of industry-specific disclosures to investors

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has published a webcast highlighting the importance of industry-specific disclosures to investors, as well as educational material designed to help companies using the SASB Standards to meet the requirements in IFRS S1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information.

In the webcast, Elizabeth Seeger, ISSB member; Richard Manley, Chief Sustainability Officer for CPP Investments and Chair of the ISSB Investor Advisory Group; and Takeo Omori, Head of Stewardship Group at Asset Management One discuss key reasons why investors use industry-specific information in their analysis and decision-making, and why industry-specific requirements are an important feature of the ISSB Standards.

The educational material explains how companies can refer to and consider the content in the SASB Standards to meet the requirements in IFRS S1.


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