Sustainability Reporting Using The Issb Standards

Understand the requirements of IFRS S1 and S2. Learn to draft a ESG report using our step-by-step guided template.

What you'll learn

Key concepts and terminology behind the ISSB Standards

Understand financial materiality and choose the relevant ESG topics and metrics to report for your company.

Collect and present data correctly with the required breakdown

Align your company’s ESG governance structure and strategic planning with the ISSB requirements

Set performance targets and monitor progress in accordance with the ISSB Standards

Identify gaps in your company’s current sustainability report and strategy

Requirements

Basic knowledge of corporate ESG

Familiarity with sustainability reports

Description

This course will help you to:Appreciate the history & context behind the ISSB Standards so that you can use it correctly.Understand the key concepts and terminology behind the IFRS S1 and S2 disclosure requirements.Draft a compliant report using our template with step-by-step guidance.By the end of this course, you will gain the knowledge needed to use the ISSB Standards. It includes video lessons, knowledge review quizzes, and a downloadable copy of our reporting template with guidance notes.The new ISSB Standards is fast becoming a global standard for sustainability reporting around the world. Countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Japan, India, Brazil, the UK and many others have announced plans to use it for mandatory corporate reporting. In this course, we will explain concepts in simple language, recommend best practices, and provide the template for drafting a full report. The ISSB Standards gives a high degree of flexibility and various options for the required disclosures. However, users must read and understand many detailed requirements, as well as a large number of application rules. Our course is designed to help you bypass all that. We've put in a lot of time and effort to connect, explain and summarize all the requirements so that you can use it without reading the documentation!Everything in this course is designed to be implementation-oriented. After completion, industry practitioners will be able to use the knowledge immediately to help them plan their sustainability strategies, workflow and data collection to ensure compliance with the ISSB Standards.

Overview

Section 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1 Course introduction

Section 2: History of the ISSB Standards

Lecture 2 Overview

Lecture 3 The Alphabet Soup of standards and frameworks

Lecture 4 Impact vs financial materiality

Lecture 5 Industry-based vs topic-based standards

Lecture 6 IFRS Foundation takes up the consolidation baton

Lecture 7 Release of IFRS S1 and S2 and early adoption by jurisdictions

Lecture 8 Summary

Section 3: Understanding the Requirements of the IFRS S1

Lecture 9 Overview

Lecture 10 General requirements for drafting and publishing reports

Lecture 11 Requirements for the content of your report

Lecture 12 Sources of guidance for choosing topics and metrics

Lecture 13 Summary

Section 4: Climate-related Disclosures Using the IFRS S2

Lecture 14 Overview

Lecture 15 Introduction to the IFRS S2

Lecture 16 Core content differences versus IFRS S1

Lecture 17 Switching from TCFD Framework to IFRS S2

Lecture 18 Governance & Risk Management

Lecture 19 Strategy – Climate-related Risks & Opportunities

Lecture 20 Strategy – Climate Resilience & Scenario Analysis

Lecture 21 Metrics – Cross-industry & Industry-based

Lecture 22 Targets – Climate-related Targets

Lecture 23 Summary

Section 5: Report Template with Step-by-Step Guidance

Lecture 24 Overview

Lecture 25 IFRS S1 Disclosures

Lecture 26 IFRS S2 Disclosures

Lecture 27 Final comments

Executives involved in sustainability management or those looking to do so,C-suite of listed companies subjected to mandatory reporting by law,Company directors with fiduciary and governance duties for sustainability,Investors, fund managers and credit analysts,Consultants, auditors, entrepreneurs, regulators and software providers for sustainability reporting