04 Sustainability Disclosures: financial reporting with SASB

Today we’re going to learn about a sustainability disclosure framework created by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).   Our guest is Matthew Welch, President of SASB. Founded in 2011 to develop and disseminate sustainability accounting standards, SASB created a new approach to measuring and reporting standardized sustainability metrics, tied to financial materiality – rather than stakeholder conceptions of materiality used by other sustainability reporting frameworks.  In 2018 SASB launched its finalized standards cutting across a wide number of industries.  We’ll discuss how the SASB framework is being used, what it means for the future of sustainability disclosures, and why companies and investors should care.  For full show notes and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://bmo.com/sustainabilityleaders