IFAC, the International Federation of Accountants, which comprises 180 member and associate organizations and represents more than 3 million professional accountants globally, welcomes the publication of the much-anticipated draft text of the European Union’s revised Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
This ambitious
proposal demonstrates leadership on the issue of corporate reporting.
The legislation seeks to put sustainability-related reporting on the
same footing as traditional financial reporting. This is long overdue.
Specific proposals, such as where sustainability information is
reported, mandatory assurance, a digital reporting taxonomy, and
expanded scope for oversight by audit committees, are all important
elements of enhancing the corporate reporting ecosystem to include sustainability-related information.
As
progress on the IFRS Foundation’s Sustainability Standards Board
accelerates, IFAC believes policymakers have a unique opportunity to
build a truly global system for sustainability reporting. We
hope the EU’s important work ultimately contributes to—and amplifies the
impact of—the emerging global system.
IFAC CEO Kevin Dancey said,
“It is great to see a commitment to the needs of investors as well as
other stakeholders, and to cooperation and alignment with international
initiatives, including proposed work of the IFRS Foundation as well as
the efforts of various public authorities. IFAC urges the IFRS
Foundation to move with speed so that the benefits of baseline standards
for enterprise value reporting will be available to all jurisdictions,
while preserving the flexibility for disclosures that meet local needs
addressing wider sustainability development goals. These are truly
exciting times. We will continue to engage with the various stakeholders
in this space as we all work toward the shared goal of a global system
for reporting sustainability-related information in the public
interest.”
IFAC
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