Institutional Investors Support Independent ESG Standard-Setters

Sept. 23, 2020, 6:09 PM UTC

The Council of Institutional Investors is calling for standardized sustainability reporting for companies to disclose issues that are growing in significance to shareholders—from climate risk to corporate governance.

The council, a group of pension funds and foundation endowments, on Wednesday announced the adoption of a policy statement that supports a role for independent, private-sector standard-setters in shaping the metrics for that reporting.

Such independent standard-setters could learn from existing financial reporting rule-writers, like the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the U.S., and should similarly have stable funding and technical expertise, and rely on an open, transparent rule-writing process, the statement ...

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