Sustainability and Climate Reporting: the Ultimate Guide

About this course

This training course is entitled Sustainability and Climate Reporting, the ultimate guide. I have called it that because I have spent a few hundred hours of my time researching the area of reporting and decided to include all the relevant topics that a person who is new to this area would expect. I tried to avoid covering too much technical knowledge to make this training course digestible for everyone in all the different activities in the world of government, non-government and corporate organisations that need to report on how they are tackling sustainability and climate issues.There are three parts to this training course:Part 1 is entitled building blocks. This is where I cover the individual components of sustainability and reporting since environmental reporting started after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.Part 2 covers the developments in reporting since 2017 when the Task Force on Climate-related financial disclosures published its report and recommendations. I then move on to cover more recent events when in June 2023 the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board published IFRS S1 on sustainability-related financial disclosures and S2 on climate-related financial disclosures. At the same time, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, in addition to its existing 77 standards on sustainability-related financial disclosures also published its industry guidance document for IFRS S2, and also become part of the International Sustainability Standards Board under the IFRS Foundation family.  I will also cover the recent Task Force on Nature-related financial disclosures.Part 3 is entitled Sustainability and climate-related reporting 2024 to 2025. In this part I will cover the following three topics: 1) The European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive or CSRD, 2) the Task Force for Climate-related disclosures final report and 3) a look to the future and what it might hold on this important

Course objectives

• provide a foundational understanding of sustainability reporting
• highlight significant changes and advancements since 2017
• anticipate upcoming regulations and their implications for reporting practices