Listen to Veronica Poole, Global International Financial Reporting Standards and Corporate Reporting Leader at big four accountancy company Deloitte.
In this episode, you’ll find out how Veronica has been at the forefront of moves to set sustainability reporting standards for business to the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). She is both one of the leaders in the world with knowledge about the ISSB but also with responsibilities to help companies implement its recommendations.
In this episode, you’ll hear more about:
“We need to have an integrated approach to assurance, and that basically means that the assurance provider needs to be fluent in financial information and to be fluent in sustainability disclosure. If that is the case, we get to higher quality of audit and to higher quality of assurance through that connected approach.”
Germany's NewClimate Institute has produced the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor report, evaluating the transparency and integrity of climate pledges of 51 major companies across different sectors and geographies.
Listen to Richard Hardyment, author and head of business engagement at the Institute of Business Ethics
Listen to Antonia Zimmermann and Anna Brunetti, respectfully trade reporter at Politico Europe and Economic Editor at Euractiv.