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Setting standards for sustainability

An UEBS Department of Finance & Accounting seminar

Finance & Accounting seminar - Professor Richard Barker, Professor of Accounting and Deputy Dean, Oxford (IFRS)


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At COP 26, the IFRS Foundation announced the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). One year on, what has the ISSB done, what does it plan to do, and what should it do? What distinctive role does it have in the world of corporate reporting, alongside regulators, other standard setters, assurers, and voluntary reporting by companies? What opportunities does it have to ‘make a difference’, and what obstacles lie in the way?