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ISAR Honours 2024

The objective of the ISAR Honours is to raise awareness and facilitate dissemination of national and international best practices on sustainability and SDG reporting as an integral of annual reporting by companies.

ISAR Annual Session 2024

Since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, the Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts has been playing a pivotal role in the harmonization of sustainability reporting frameworks and standards.

ISAR consultative meeting

This event will assess recent developments and identify key emerging issues and best practices for strengthening the regulatory, institutional and human capacity required for high-quality sustainability reporting by listed and non-listed companies.

Who We Are

ISAR is a Standing Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting created by ECOSOC in 1983 and coordinated by UNCTAD. It holds its annual sessions in Geneva to address emerging issues in enterprise accounting and reporting.

What We Do

ISAR’s mandate is to assist member States to improving quality and international comparability of financial reporting and non-financial disclosure, such as environmental issues, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.

Why Us

ISAR is a UN global forum of policy-makers, regulators, standard-setters and lead experts in the area of enterprise accounting and reporting. Its mission is to facilitate investment, development and economic stability by promoting good practices in corporate transparency and accounting through policy frameworks and guiding tools.

News

Sustainability reporting by enterprises is critical for economic progress.

UNCTAD marks 40 years of promoting sustainability reporting, honours innovation

Stakeholders converged at the eighth World Investment Forum to advance the sustainability reporting agenda and recognize innovative initiatives.

Factory in Almaty, Kazakhstan

Developing countries need more support to cope with new global sustainability reporting standards

Rapid changes in global standard-setting put new strains on regulators, institutions and professional bodies in countries with weaker accounting and reporting ecosystems.

ISAR Honours 2021

UNCTAD names winners of ISAR Honours 2021

The ISAR awards have grown from strength to strength, with nearly 150 nominated for the awards by organizations from 40 countries representing six geographical regions, since they were launched in 2018.

Publications

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Core Indicators for Sustainability and SDG Impact Reporting: Training Manual

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Tackling the Sustainability Reporting Challenge – A Policy Guide

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Guidance on Core Indicators for Sustainability and SDG Impact Reporting

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Training Manual on Accounting for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

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Practical implementation of core indicators for sustainable development reporting

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Core SDG Indicators for Entity Reporting: Training manual

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Projects

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Strengthening sustainability reporting in Asia and Latin America

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Enabling policy frameworks for enterprise sustainability and SDG reporting in Africa and Latin America

Contact

Palais des Nations

Accounting and Corporate Governance Section
Division on Investment and Enterprise

UNCTAD
Palais des Nations
8-14, Avenue de la Paix 1211 – Geneva 10
Switzerland

F: +41 22 917 0122
E: isar@unctad.org