Emmanuel Faber, chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board. Photo: World Economic Forum / Michael Calabrò
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has launched a tool to help financial regulators and other authorities to plan and design roadmaps to adopt sustainability reporting standards.
The roadmap tool was unveiled at a workshop in London for international bodies, financial institutions, multilateral development banks, national development agencies and accounting networks.
“As part of its objective to support effective and efficient capital markets, the ISSB is helping jurisdictions in the development of their adoption roadmaps,” said ISSB chair Emmanuel Faber. “This roadmap tool equips regulators to make informed decisions about their approach towards adoption or other use of ISSB standards.”
The tool is aimed at helping authorities in four areas: how to adopt ISSB standards, who will be subject to the requirements, what will be covered and when they will become effective.
Last year, the ISSB announced new initiatives to help standardise the disclosure of company transition plans and greenhouse gas emissions.
The ISSB says its work to develop sustainability disclosure standards is backed by finance ministers and central bank governors from more than 40 jurisdictions, as well as the G7, the G20, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions and the Financial Stability Board.
The ISSB was set up by the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation at Cop26 in 2021 to help consolidate environmental reporting regimes around the world and improve comparability for investors, regulators and other stakeholders.
This page was last updated April 1, 2025
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