Oct 02 2023 41 mins
For investors, taking sustainability seriously requires high-quality company-level data. That, in turn, requires standards that ensure companies across industries and economies are providing this kind of investor-useful data. We need accounting standards for sustainability reporting, just like what we have for financial reporting.
Our guest this week is from the international body that's tackling this task. Elizabeth Seeger is a Wharton MBA alum and board member at the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), a 14-member body within the world's standards-setter for accounting, the IFRS Foundation. The ISSB released this summer a pair of global baseline standards for sustainability and climate reporting. They're working with countries and international organizations around the world (G7, G20, central bank governors, and more) to drive global adoption.
Listen to learn:
-- How the ISSB is unifying the global maze of sustainability accounting standards
-- How the board draws on financial reporting concepts in underpinning its sustainability reporting standards
-- How sustainability reporting standards in public markets affect private markets.
Bio: Elizabeth Seeger has over 20 years’ experience of standard-setting, investment and working on sustainability topics. She joined the ISSB from global investment firm KKR, where she served as Managing Director, Sustainable Investing, responsible for helping oversee the firm's consideration of sustainability matters throughout KKR’s investment process and part of KKR's Global Impact team. She also oversaw KKR’s public sustainability reporting efforts, including the development of SASB and TCFD-aligned reporting. Before joining KKR in 2009, she served as a project manager in the corporate partnerships programme (now known as EDF+Business) of Environmental Defence Fund.
Elizabeth's comments represent her views and opinions and not those of the ISSB or the IFRS Foundation.
Our guest this week is from the international body that's tackling this task. Elizabeth Seeger is a Wharton MBA alum and board member at the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), a 14-member body within the world's standards-setter for accounting, the IFRS Foundation. The ISSB released this summer a pair of global baseline standards for sustainability and climate reporting. They're working with countries and international organizations around the world (G7, G20, central bank governors, and more) to drive global adoption.
Listen to learn:
-- How the ISSB is unifying the global maze of sustainability accounting standards
-- How the board draws on financial reporting concepts in underpinning its sustainability reporting standards
-- How sustainability reporting standards in public markets affect private markets.
Bio: Elizabeth Seeger has over 20 years’ experience of standard-setting, investment and working on sustainability topics. She joined the ISSB from global investment firm KKR, where she served as Managing Director, Sustainable Investing, responsible for helping oversee the firm's consideration of sustainability matters throughout KKR’s investment process and part of KKR's Global Impact team. She also oversaw KKR’s public sustainability reporting efforts, including the development of SASB and TCFD-aligned reporting. Before joining KKR in 2009, she served as a project manager in the corporate partnerships programme (now known as EDF+Business) of Environmental Defence Fund.
Elizabeth's comments represent her views and opinions and not those of the ISSB or the IFRS Foundation.