EDSR1 Submission Letters to AASB

The AASB's Exposure Draft ED SR1 Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards – Disclosure of Climate-related Financial Information which proposes climate-related financial disclosure requirements closed for comment on Friday, 1 March 2024.

ED SR1 includes three draft Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS Standards):

  1. [draft] ASRS 1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Climate-related Financial Information, developed using IFRS S1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information as the baseline but with a scope limitation to climate-related financial disclosure;
  2. [draft] ASRS 2 Climate-related Financial Disclosures, developed using IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures as the baseline; and
  3. [draft] ASRS 101 References in Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards, developed as a service standard that would be updated periodically to list the relevant versions of any non-legislative documents published in Australia and foreign documents that are referenced in ASRS Standards.

Stakeholders were invited to provide feedback on ED SR1 by submitting a comment letter, completing an online survey or attending a roundtable discussion. The comment letters are published below.

Submission received from:
Central Coast Council
ADCO Construction
Insurance Council of Australia (ICA)
ABS
T. Rowe Price
Confidential
Deakin University IR Centre
ASIC
HoTARAC
Adamantem Capital and Melior Investment Management (The Adamantem Group)
Accountants and Actuaries Liaison Committee (AALC)
National Australia Bank (NAB)
Financial Services Council (FSC)
Maritime Union of Australia (MUA)
Monash University
Actuaries Institute
The Treasury
UniSuper
Scyne Advisory
SLR
Deloitte
Australian Super
Council of Financial Regulators (CFR) Climate Working Group
APRA
Australian Pork Limited (APL)
Grant Thornton Australia
Environmental Defenders Office
UNSW
Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA)
British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI)
University Pension Plan (UPP)
Confidential
Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ)
Australian Sustainable Finance Institute
Panasonic Australia Pty Ltd
Energy Efficiency Council (EEC)
Australasian Council of Auditors-General (ACAG)
BHP
Australian Steel Institute (ASI)
BDO Australia
Sustainability Compliance team USYD
Thinkstep ANZ
Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ)
Australian Finance Industry Association (AFIA)
Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance at Macquarie University
Zenith Investment Partners
City of Newcastle
Alinta Energy
Telstra
Aurizon
Minerals Council of Australia (MCA)
Local Government NSW (LGNSW)
CBA
ACSI
EY
Customer Owned Banking Association (COBA)
Northern Beaches Council
Microsoft
Impax Asset Management
ACCA
Westpac Group
Australian Banking Association (ABA)
The Australian Industry Group (AI)
Ampol
CA ANZ and CPA
Whitehaven Coal
Property Council of Australia (PCA)
KPMG
Curtin University and Macquarie University
AGL
Australian Retailers Association (ARA)
Chubb Insurance Australia (Chubb)
Origin
Clean Energy Investor Group (CEIG)
City of Ryde
Professor Christine Jubb (Swinburne Uni) and Dr Zihan Liu (The university of Otago)
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC)
Green Power
National Farmers Federation (NFF)
NSW Treasury
Aware Super
Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD)
Institute of Public Accountants (IPA)
Confidential and Anonymous
Red Meat Advisory Council (RMAC)
PwC
GHG Offset Services (GHG OS)
Social and Environmental Sustainability in Organisations (SESIO) Research Group (Swinburne)
Climateworks Centre
Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)
Clubs Australia
Yarra Capital Management (YCM)
Australian Lot Feeders Association (ALFA)
Australian Forrest Products Association (AFPA)
Business Council of Australia (BCA)
Australian Retirement Trust (ART)
QBE Insurance Group
Basford Consulting
Kate McNicholl
Governance Institute of Australia (Governance Institute)
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF)
Greenbase Pty Ltd
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
Anthesis Australia Pty
MSCI ESG Research LLC
Victoria University and Michael Jensen & Associates
David Hardidge
Bloomberg
Energet1C5
Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA)
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM)
Confidential
ATCO
Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia (BCSDA)
Waverly Council NSW
Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA)
Gen Sustainability

 

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