Japan Says It Will Use New Global Sustainability Rules

Japan has agreed to include new global sustainability rules in its own national reporting requirements, the International Sustainability Standards Board said Thursday.

Reporting on a Monday meeting with the Sustainability Standards Board of Japan, the ISSB said the Japanese national standard setter had set out the timeline to write its own sustainability reporting rules. These would incorporate the ISSB’s standards and draft rules would be published next year.

• “The SSBJ is committed to developing Japanese sustainability disclosure standards that build on the global baseline of sustainability-related disclosures established by ISSB Standards,” chair Yasunobu Kawanishi said in a statement. “In developing ...