Sustainable development goals disclosure recommendations – risks, opportunities and long-term value ACCA Insights

The Sustainable Development Goals Disclosure (SDGD) Recommendations, authored by Carol Adams, Professor of Accounting, with Paul Druckman and Russell Picot, Honorary Professors at Durham University Business School, offer a new approach for organizations to address sustainable development issues. They attempt to establish a best practice for corporate reporting on the SDGs and enable more effective and standardized reporting and transparency on climate change, social and other environmental impacts.Jimmy Greer, ACCA’s Head of Sustainability, discusses with the authors and Charles Tilley, interim Chief Executive International Integrated Reporting Council.Their conversation covers, how the SDGD recommendations augument other frameworks and support organisations to achieve sustainable development goals, its relevance to integrated thinking and reporting; its importance for the work of benchmarking agencies.Read the SDGD recommendations