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ISSB to Announce Reporting Framework in June

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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.

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