‘One of our top priorities is to drive simplification in the landscape,’ says Janine Guillot, CEO of the Value Reporting Foundation – the organization created by the merger between SASB and the International Integration Reporting Council.
In the latest episode of the podcast, Governance Matters host Jeff Cossette catches up with Guillot to discuss her vision for the future of investor-facing ESG reporting and how the Value Reporting Foundation is working with the IFRS Foundation toward standardization.
‘We definitely think the alphabet soup can simplify and we think it can simplify around the concept of target users,’ Guillot says. ’I think it’s possible to envision a global set of standards targeted at the investor user, thinking through the lens of how sustainability issues impact financial performance and enterprise value.’
In part two of the episode, Ben Ashwell talks to Hannah Orowitz, senior managing director on Georgeson’s corporate governance advisory team, about the eye-catching takeaways from this year’s proxy season, from support for environmental-related proposals and uncertainty about say-on-climate efforts to discussions around diversity, equity and inclusion.
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