How capital markets can take sustainability to the next level
As the world strives towards net zero carbon, corporate sustainability data is no longer going to be merely a ‘nice to have,’ or something to make shareholders feel better about their investments. It will be central to a corporation’s long-term license to operate and thus inseparable from that of prospective financial return and risk. Therefore accountants must agree and implement a set of global sustainability standards.

As Richard Barker and seven other colleagues recently set out in a letter to the IRFS, they have the relationships, authority, and expertise to take on this additional role and a create a Sustainability Standards Board which would then set the sustainability reporting standards.

This event session will be based around the high profile debate about how corporations should be presenting their ESG debits/credits as part of their standard financial reporting and the adoption of a global set of standards for this reporting.

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Date: 16 February 2021, 14:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Hilary 2021)
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1HP
Venue Details: Online via Oxford Answers, live or recorded on - https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-answers
Speakers: Richard Barker (Professor of Accounting and Associate Dean of Faculty, Saïd Business School), Clara Barby (Chief Executive, Impact Management Project), Tajinder Singh (Deputy Secretary General, International Organization of Securities Commissions IOSCO), Dame Elizabeth Corley (Chair, Board of Impact Investing Institute, and Non-executive Director of Pearson plc, BAE Systems plc and Morgan Stanley Inc.), Sandra Boss (Global Head of Investment Stewardship, and member of Global Executive Committee, BlackRock)
Organising department: Saïd Business School
Organiser: Oxford Saïd Events (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: oxfordsaid.events@sbs.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Leadership in extraordinary times
Booking required?: Not required
Booking url: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/events/how-capital-markets-can-take-sustainability-next-level
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Kristine Homoki