Presentations

2 November
3 November
4 November
5 November
6 November
30 October UNCTAD-ISAR – WBCSD Workshop Assurance on sustainability reports: current practices and challenges

2 November

High-level panel: Recent trends and key challenges in enterprise reporting agenda and impact of COVID-19

Keynote address, Tajinder Singh, Deputy Secretary-General, International Organization of Securities Commissions

02 Nov 2020 – Agenda item High-Level panel: Recent trends and key challenges in enterprise reporting agenda and impact of COVID-19

Presentation, Rodney Irwin, Managing Director, Redefining Value and Education, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

02 Nov 2020 – Agenda item High-level panel: Recent trends and key challenges in enterprise reporting agenda and impact of COVID-19

Presentation, Robert Hirth, Co-Vice Chair, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

02 Nov 2020 – Agenda item High-level panel: Recent trends and key challenges in enterprise reporting agenda and impact of COVID-19

3 November

Agenda item 3. Practical implementation, including measurement, of core indicators for entity reporting on the contribution towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals: Review of case studies

Introduction, Tatiana Krylova, Head, Enterprise Branch, UNCTAD

03 Nov 2020 – Agenda item 3. Practical implementation, including measurement, of core indicators for entity reporting on the contribution towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals: Review of case studies

Presentation, Donna Street, Director, Research and Educational Activities, International Association for Accounting Education and Research, Chair and Professor, Department of Accounting, School of Business, University of Dayton, United States

Presentation, Khaled Dahawy, Professor of Accounting, School of Business, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Presentation, Cliff Nyandoro, Manager, Technical Services, Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya, Kenya

Presentation, Shireen Naidoo, Sustainability Adviser, Board Member, Social and Ethics and Remuneration Committee Member, South Africa

4 November

Agenda item 3 (continued). Practical implementation, including measurement, of core indicators for entity reporting on the contribution towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals: Review of case studies

Presentation, Joanna Krasodomska, Associate Professor, Financial Accounting Department, Cracow University of Economics, Poland; Ewelina Zarzycka, Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, University of Lodz, Poland

04 Nov 2020 – Agenda item 3. Practical implementation, including measurement, of core indicators for entity reporting on the contribution towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals: Review of case studies

Presentation, Uthman Alzahrani, SABIC, Saudi Arabia

Presentation, Caroline Seow, Head of Sustainability, Family Business Network International

Presentation, Ariela Caglio, Director, Bocconi-ESSEC Double Degree and Associate Professor, Bocconi University

Presentation, Baraka Cassian, Managing Partner of Cassian and Associates, United Republic of Tanzania

Presentation, Valerie Bizier, Senior Statistician, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Presentation, Angela Bai, Secretary-General, China Alliance of Social Value Investment

Presentation, Guy Lalanne, Economist and Policy Analyst, Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

5 November

Agenda item 4. Climate-related financial disclosures in mainstream entity reporting: Good practices and key challenges

Keynote address, Erkki Liikanen, Chair, International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation Trustees

05 Nov 2020 – Agenda item 4. Climate-related financial disclosures in mainstream entity reporting: Good practices and key challenges

Presentation, Mardi McBrien, Managing Director, Climate Disclosure Standards Board

05 Nov 2020 – Agenda item 4. Climate-related financial disclosures in mainstream entity reporting: Good practices and key challenges

Presentation, Vladimir Skobarev, Partner, Head, Corporate Governance and Sustainability Department; Elena Pertseva, Deputy Director, Corporate Governance and Sustainability Department, FBK Grant Thornton

05 Nov 2020 – Agenda item 4. Climate-related financial disclosures in mainstream entity reporting: Good practices and key challenges

Presentation, Céline Bilolo, Head of Stakeholder Outreach, Value Balancing Alliance

05 Nov 2020 – Agenda item 4. Climate-related financial disclosures in mainstream entity reporting: Good practices and key challenges

6 November

Agenda item 5. Other business
Progress and challenges in Sustainable Development Goal data collection from companies towards the achievement of Goal 12.6.1, number of companies publishing sustainability reports

Presentation, Madelyn Antoncic, CEO, Global Algorithmic Institute; Richard V. Rothenberg, Executive Director, Global AI Corporation, United States of America

06 Nov 2020 – Agenda item 5(a). Progress and challenges in Sustainable Development Goal data collection from companies towards the achievement of Goal 12.6.1, number of companies publishing sustainability reports

Presentation, Andreas Feiner, Chief Executive Officer, Arabesque S-Ray

Presentation, Richard Woods, European Union Public Policy Lead, World Benchmarking Alliance

Agenda item 5. Other business
UNCTAD–ISAR Accounting Development Tool and Guidance on Core Indicators implementation experiences from member States

Presentation, Wilmar Franco Franco, Technical Council for Public Accountancy, Colombia

06 Nov 2020 – Agenda item 5(b). UNCTAD–ISAR Accounting Development Tool and Guidance on Core Indicators implementation experiences from member States

Presentation, Arman Bekturova, Director, Ministry of Finance, Kazakhstan

06 Nov 2020 – Agenda item 5(b). UNCTAD–ISAR Accounting Development Tool and Guidance on Core Indicators implementation experiences from member States

30 October

UNCTAD-ISAR – WBCSD Workshop
Assurance on sustainability reports: current practices and challenges

Presentation, Roger Simnett, member, International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board
Presentation, Eric Dugelay, Partner, Deloitte and Member of Sustainable Finance Group, Accountancy Europe
Presentation, Samantha Ross, Founder AssuranceMark, the Investors’ Consortium for Assurance
Presentation, Nancy Kamp, Prof. dr. Non-Financial Information, Integrated Reporting and Assurance, University of Groningen; and Associate Partner, EY
Presentation, Austin Kennedy, Manager, Redefining Value, World Business Council for Sustainable Development

International Standards of Accounting and Reporting

ISAR Honours 2020

ISAR Honours 2020

Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting, thirty-seventh session

ISAR 37

UNCTAD-ISAR event

Measuring the private sector’s contribution to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals

United Nations Development Account 11th Tranche project "Enabling policy frameworks for enterprise sustainability and SDG reporting in Africa and Latin America"

Sustainability reporting and SDGs

Accounting Development Tool

Accounting Development Tool

2 November

High-level panel: Recent trends and key challenges in enterprise reporting agenda and impact of COVID-19

3 November

Agenda item 3. Practical implementation, including measurement, of core indicators for entity reporting on the contribution towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals: Review of case studies

4 November

Agenda item 3 (continued). Practical implementation, including measurement, of core indicators for entity reporting on the contribution towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals: Review of case studies

5 November

Agenda item 4. Climate-related financial disclosures in mainstream entity reporting: Good practices and key challenges

6 November

Agenda item 5. Other business
Progress and challenges in Sustainable Development Goal data collection from companies towards the achievement of Goal 12.6.1, number of companies publishing sustainability reports

Agenda item 5. Other business
UNCTAD–ISAR Accounting Development Tool and Guidance on Core Indicators implementation experiences from member States

30 October

UNCTAD-ISAR – WBCSD Workshop
Assurance on sustainability reports: current practices and challenges

Presentations

2 November

High-level panel: Recent trends and key challenges in enterprise reporting agenda and impact of COVID-19

3 November

Agenda item 3. Practical implementation, including measurement, of core indicators for entity reporting on the contribution towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals: Review of case studies

4 November

Agenda item 3 (continued). Practical implementation, including measurement, of core indicators for entity reporting on the contribution towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals: Review of case studies

5 November

Agenda item 4. Climate-related financial disclosures in mainstream entity reporting: Good practices and key challenges

6 November

Agenda item 5. Other business Progress and challenges in Sustainable Development Goal data collection from companies towards the achievement of Goal 12.6.1, number of companies publishing sustainability reports

Agenda item 5. Other business UNCTAD–ISAR Accounting Development Tool and Guidance on Core Indicators implementation experiences from member States

30 October

UNCTAD-ISAR – WBCSD Workshop Assurance on sustainability reports: current practices and challenges

Agenda item 5. Other business
Progress and challenges in Sustainable Development Goal data collection from companies towards the achievement of Goal 12.6.1, number of companies publishing sustainability reports

Agenda item 5. Other business
UNCTAD–ISAR Accounting Development Tool and Guidance on Core Indicators implementation experiences from member States

UNCTAD-ISAR – WBCSD Workshop
Assurance on sustainability reports: current practices and challenges