ISSB to Announce Reporting Framework in June

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has said it will announce its ESG reporting framework in June. Erkki Liikanen, chair of the IFRS Foundation – under which the board operates – told the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, that he expected the sustainability and climate-related reporting framework to be published “at tremendous speed” because “there is such urgency”. A meeting of the board earlier said it would allow companies exemptions from reporting some ESG data if the cost of gathering and disclosing it would damage them commercially.