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London Reporting Academy·Disclosure guides

Understand the questions behind the standards.

Expert-written answers to the questions that slow reporting teams down. Each one opens with the conclusion, shows the requirement it rests on, explains the conditions and the judgement involved, and links to the disclosure cards the decision affects.

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  1. ISSB·Decision guideUK SRS S2 and GRI Climate Reporting: What Data Can Be Reused?
  2. ISSB·ExplainerUK SRS S2 Board Briefing: reporting basis, material climate risks, scenarios, resilience, financial effects, GHG, reliefs, metrics, controls and approval
  3. ISSB·ToolkitIFRS S1 Implementation Registers
  4. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 and S2 Compliance Checklist and Free Disclosure Matrix
  5. ISSB·Decision guideCan One Climate Dataset Support UK SRS S2, IFRS S2, ESRS E1, TCFD and CDP?
  6. ISSB·Decision guideUK SRS S2 and CDP: How to Reuse Climate Data Without Assuming Compliance
  7. ISSB·ComparisonUK SRS S2 vs ESRS E1: Climate Materiality, GHG and Transition Plan Differences
  8. ISSB·ExplainerIFRS S2 Climate Targets and Carbon Credits: Gross, Net and Credible Claims
  9. ISSB·ExplainerIFRS S2 Transition Plan Disclosures: Strategy, Assumptions, Resources and Progress
  10. ISSB·ExplainerIFRS S2 for Asset Managers: Portfolio Boundaries, Data and Investor Disclosures
  11. ISSB·ExplainerIFRS S2 for Insurers: Underwriting, Investments and Financed Emissions
  12. ISSB·ExplainerIFRS S2 for Banks: Financed Emissions, Credit Risk and Climate Metrics
  13. ISSB·ExplainerIFRS S1 Risk Management Disclosures: Identification, Prioritisation and Integration into ERM
  14. ISSB·ExplainerIFRS KH 04 Strategy Disclosures
  15. ISSB·ExplainerIFRS S1 and S2 Governance Disclosures: Board Oversight, Management Roles and Controls
  16. ISSB·ExplainerThe Four Pillars of IFRS S1 and IFRS S2: Governance, Strategy, Risk Management, Metrics and Targets
  17. ISSB·Decision guideHow to Identify Sustainability-Related Risks and Opportunities Under IFRS S1
  18. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 Climate-First Relief
  19. ISSB·Decision guideFirst-Time Application of IFRS S1 and IFRS S2
  20. ISSB·ComparisonIFRS S2 vs TCFD: What Changed and How to Transition
  21. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 Company-Specific Disclosures: What to Do When No Dedicated ISSB Standard Exists
  22. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S2 Scenario Analysis: A Proportionate Approach to Climate Resilience
  23. ISSB·Decision guideHow to Use SASB Standards When Applying IFRS S1
  24. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 and S2 Industry-Based Metrics: How to Select Relevant SASB Guidance
  25. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S2 Climate Resilience: How to Assess and Disclose Capacity to Adapt
  26. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 Compliance Statement, Report Location and Publication Timing Explained
  27. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 and S2 Proportionality
  28. ISSB·Decision guideNature-Related Risks Under IFRS S1: How TNFD and SASB Can Support Disclosure
  29. ISSB·ExplainerIFRS S1 Metrics and Targets: Industry-Based, Entity-Specific and Performance Disclosures
  30. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 Materiality Assessment
  31. ISSB·ComparisonIFRS S1 and S2 vs GRI: Investor-Focused and Impact Reporting Compared
  32. ISSB·ComparisonIFRS S1 and S2 vs ESRS: Materiality, Scope and Disclosure Differences Explained
  33. ISSB·Decision guideCan One Dataset Support IFRS S1/S2, ESRS, GRI and CDP?
  34. ISSB·Decision guideHow to Prepare an IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 Report
  35. ISSB·Decision guideFirst IFRS S1 and S2 Reporting Cycle: A 12-Month Implementation Plan
  36. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 and S2 Gap Assessment: How to Test Readiness and Prioritise Remediation
  37. ISSB·Decision guideHuman Capital Disclosures Under IFRS S1: Risks, Opportunities and Industry Metrics
  38. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 and S2 Board Briefing: Ten Questions Directors Should Ask Before Approval
  39. ISSB·Decision guideGHG Protocol and IFRS S2: reporting entity, organisational boundaries, equity share, control, jurisdictional methods, GWP values and Scope 1 and Scope 2 disaggregation
  40. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S2 Category 15 and Financed Emissions: What Financial Institutions Must Report
  41. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S2 Scope 3: How to Assess All 15 Categories and Improve Data Quality
  42. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S2 Scope 2 Disclosure: Location-Based Emissions and Contractual Instruments
  43. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S2 GHG Amendments 2025: What Changed and How to Prepare for 2027
  44. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S2 Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 Emissions: Complete Measurement Guide
  45. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 and S2 for CFOs: budgets, forecasts, financial statements, capital allocation, financing, financial effects, data lineage and sign-off
  46. ISSB·Decision guideCurrent and Anticipated Financial Effects Under IFRS S1 and S2: A Practical Guide
  47. ISSB·Decision guideComparatives, Restatements and Errors
  48. ISSB·Decision guideEstimates, Data Gaps and Uncertainty
  49. ISSB·Decision guideInternal Controls Over IFRS Sustainability Disclosures: A Practical Framework
  50. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS Sustainability Disclosure Taxonomy: Digital Tagging for IFRS S1 and S2
  51. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S2 Climate-Related Risks and Opportunities: Complete Guide
  52. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 Reporting Entity and Boundary: Financial Statements, Value Chain and GHG Data
  53. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 and IFRS S2 Explained
  54. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 and S2 Assurance Readiness: Evidence, Controls and Common Review Findings
  55. ISSB·ComparisonIFRS S1 vs IFRS S2: Key Differences and Why Both Standards Matter
  56. ISSB·Decision guideAre IFRS S1 and IFRS S2 Mandatory?

How an LRA guide is built

Every answer follows the same discipline.

You should be able to stop reading after the first paragraph and still have what you came for. Everything below it exists so you can defend the answer to a reviewer.

  1. 01
    Answer

    The question is stated as a reporting team would ask it, and settled in the opening lines.

  2. 02
    Basis

    The official source and edition are named, and kept clearly apart from our reading of them.

  3. 03
    Judgement

    The points the standard leaves open are marked, with what a defensible position looks like.

  4. 04
    Action

    The answer links to the disclosures and evidence it affects, so a decision turns into fields to fill.

  • Practitioner-written, then technically reviewed
  • A named reviewer, with a date
  • Requirements kept separate from practice and interpretation
  • Stated update triggers for re-reading each answer
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