Disclosure guides

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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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  • A named reviewer, with a date
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  1. UK S2·ExplainerUK SRS S2 Strategy Disclosures: Business Model, Value Chain, Capital Deployment and Trade-Offs
  2. UK S2·ExplainerUK SRS S2 Physical Risks, Transition Risks and Climate Opportunities Explained
  3. UK S2·ExplainerUK SRS S2 Climate Materiality Assessment: What Information Could Affect Prospects?
  4. UK S1·Decision guideHow to Identify Sustainability-Related Risks and Opportunities Under UK SRS S1
  5. UK S1·Decision guideUK SRS S1 Materiality Assessment: Investor-Focused Reporting for UK Companies
  6. UK S2·Decision guideUK SRS S2 Climate Risk Management: Identification, Prioritisation and ERM Integration
  7. UK S1·Decision guideFree UK SRS S1 Materiality and Risk-Opportunity Register Template
  8. ESRS·Decision guideESRS Climate Scenario Analysis and Resilience: A Proportionate First-Year Approach
  9. ESRS·Decision guideHow to Identify Impacts, Risks and Opportunities Under ESRS: business context, value chains, dependencies, time horizons, thresholds and the IRO register
  10. ESRS·Decision guideTop-Down Double Materiality Assessment Under Revised ESRS: Practical Methodology
  11. ESRS·ComparisonImpact Materiality vs Financial Materiality: How ESRS Double Materiality Works
  12. ESRS·Decision guideESRS Double Materiality Assessment: A Step-by-Step Guide for 2026
  13. GRI·ToolkitGRI Materiality, Severity, Human Rights and Reporting Principles Working Toolkit
  14. GRI·ExplainerGRI Impact Inventory: How to Build a Complete Long List of Impacts
  15. TNFD·Decision guideTNFD DIROs Explained: Dependencies, Impacts, Risks and Opportunities
  16. TNFD·Decision guideTNFD Mitigation Hierarchy: Avoid, Minimise, Restore and Offset Explained
  17. UK S1·Decision guideNature-Related Risks Under UK SRS S1: Using TNFD and Emerging ISSB Guidance
  18. UK S1·Decision guideHuman Capital Under UK SRS S1: Workforce Risks, Skills, Safety and Retention
  19. UAE·ExplainerUAE Climate Risk Assessment: How to Connect Physical Risk to Assets, Supply Chains and Finance
  20. TNFD·Decision guideTNFD Scenario Analysis and Nature Resilience: A Practical First-Year Approach
  21. TNFD·Decision guideTNFD Nature-Related Risks: Physical, Transition and Systemic Risk Explained
  22. TNFD·Decision guideTNFD Risk and Impact Management: Processes for Direct Operations and Value Chains
  23. TNFD·Decision guideTNFD Materiality Explained: Financial, Impact and Double Materiality Approaches
  24. TNFD·Decision guideTNFD Sensitive Locations: Protected Areas, Ecosystem Integrity, Water Risk and Services
  25. TNFD·Decision guideTNFD Priority Locations Explained: Selection Criteria, Granularity and Disclosure
  26. TNFD·Decision guideTNFD Evaluate Phase: Environmental Assets, Ecosystem Services, Dependencies and Impacts
  27. TNFD·Decision guideTNFD Assess Phase: Turning Nature Dependencies and Impacts into Business Risks and Opportunities
  28. TNFD·ExplainerCommon TNFD Reporting Mistakes Generic Nature Risk Missing Locations and Weak DIRO Logic
  29. TNFD·Decision guideIndigenous Peoples, Local Communities and FPIC in TNFD Reporting
  30. TNFD·Decision guideNature Dependencies and Ecosystem Services: How to Map What Your Business Relies On
  31. GRI·ExplainerGRI Impact Materiality Methodology: How to Score and Prioritise Significant Impacts
  32. GRI·ExplainerGRI 3-3 Explained: How to Report the Management of Each Material Topic
  33. GRI·ExplainerGRI 3: Material Topics 2021 — How Disclosures 3-1, 3-2 and 3-3 Work Together
  34. GRI·ComparisonImpact Materiality vs Double Materiality
  35. GRI·ExplainerGRI Materiality Assessment
  36. ISSB·ExplainerIFRS S1 Risk Management Disclosures: Identification, Prioritisation and Integration into ERM
  37. ISSB·Decision guideHow to Identify Sustainability-Related Risks and Opportunities Under IFRS S1
  38. ISSB·Decision guideFirst-Time Application of IFRS S1 and IFRS S2
  39. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 Company-Specific Disclosures: What to Do When No Dedicated ISSB Standard Exists
  40. ISSB·Decision guideHow to Use SASB Standards When Applying IFRS S1
  41. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 and S2 Proportionality
  42. ISSB·Decision guideNature-Related Risks Under IFRS S1: How TNFD and SASB Can Support Disclosure
  43. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 Materiality Assessment
  44. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 and S2 Gap Assessment: How to Test Readiness and Prioritise Remediation
  45. ISSB·Decision guideHuman Capital Disclosures Under IFRS S1: Risks, Opportunities and Industry Metrics
  46. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S1 and S2 Board Briefing: Ten Questions Directors Should Ask Before Approval
  47. ISSB·Decision guideComparatives, Restatements and Errors
  48. ISSB·Decision guideIFRS S2 Climate-Related Risks and Opportunities: Complete Guide
  49. GRI·Decision guideWhat to Do When No GRI Topic Standard Covers a Material Topic
  50. GRI·Decision guideHow to Select GRI Topic Standards and Relevant Disclosures
  51. GRI·Decision guideHow to Exclude a Likely Material Topic from a GRI Sector Standard
  52. GRI·Decision guideGRI Sector Standards for Diversified Groups: When More Than One Standard Applies
  53. GRI·Decision guideGRI Sector Standards: Applicability, Requirements and Common Mistakes
  54. GRI·Decision guideGRI Materiality Assessment without Reliable Data: Expert Judgement, Assumptions and Uncertainty
  55. GRI·Decision guideHow Often Should a GRI Materiality Assessment Be Updated?
  56. GRI·ComparisonActual vs Potential Impacts under GRI: Definitions, Examples and Assessment Logic
  57. GRI·Decision guideScale, Scope and Irremediable Character: How to Assess Severity under GRI
  58. GRI·Decision guideGRI Materiality Thresholds: How to Set, Approve and Defend the Cut-Off
  59. GRI·Decision guideGRI and ESRS Materiality Mapping Process Reuse and Gaps
  60. GRI·Decision guideHuman Rights Impacts under GRI: Why Severity Can Override Likelihood
  61. EU VS·Decision guideHow Large Companies Should Redesign Supplier ESG Questionnaires Around the Value Chain Cap
  62. EU VS·Decision guideEU Voluntary Standard for Bank and Lender Requests: What Information Is Most Decision-Useful?

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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