Sustainability Reporting Chief Makes Case for Global Approach

The International Sustainability Standards Board aims to set green reporting rules that will reduce reporting costs, provide better information to investors, and become the framework of choice globally.

Emmanuel Faber, the former CEO of Danone SA who now chairs the ISSB, made a case Tuesday for why the newly formed board’s standards should serve as the preferred reporting framework of regulators, and one that the US market could embrace.

“This is not going to be the minimum denominator,” Faber told chief financial officers at a Wall Street Journal event. “This is going to answer the needs of very ...