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United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27): The path to global digital sustainability disclosure

November 10, 2022 at 10:30-12:00 local time

Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

The path to global digital sustainability disclosure

Agenda

Conference Host: Bellona
Conference Master of Ceremony: Michael Hugman, Director of Climate Finance,
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation


The ISSB is actively working to establish a digital-ready global baseline for sustainability-related
financial disclosures. This baseline approach is welcomed by the G7, G20, IOSCO, the FSB,
and by companies and investors. Upcoming, statutory disclosure obligations are creating
seismic shifts in the way that this information is managed inside the enterprise, enhancing
quality, reliability, and accountability. Key standards setters are working to ensure that
information is digital from the outset! But what are the challenges that need to be addressed?
What steps need to be taken to urgently ensure that digitized sustainability data is available
when it is needed, and in a way that can be relied on? In other words, what is the path to global
digital sustainability disclosures?

Welcome and Introductions
The introduction will be given by:
○ Frederic Hauge, Founder and General Manager of the Bellona Foundation
○ Mardi McBrien, Director, IFRS Foundation
○ Michael Hugman, Director of Climate Finance, Children’s Investment Fund
Foundation

Keynote opening panel: Sustainability and Regulatory Standards that are Digital Ready
(30 mins)
Facilitator: Michael Hugman, Director of Climate Finance, Children’s Investment Fund
Foundation
IOSCO:
● Jean-Paul Servais, Chair IOSCO Board
Egypt Financial Regulatory Authority:
● Mohamed Farid, Chairman, Egypt Financial Regulatory Authority
Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria:
● Ambassador Shuaibu Adamu Ahmed, Financial Reporting Council Nigeria
ISSB:
● Dr. Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien, ISSB Board Member

Fireside Chat Panel: Shifting from paper to data (XBRL Taxonomy Best Practices) (40
mins)

Facilitator: Michael Hugman, Director of Climate Finance, Children’s Investment Fund
Foundation
Panel:
● John Turner, CEO XBRL International, Inc
● Liv Watson, Managing Director Adviseers SaS on Secondment to Capitals
Coalition & Co-Founder of the DSD-Lab
● Simone Kramer, GFANZ
● Fran Seagull, Managing Director, Tipping Point Fund for Impact Investing

Fireside Panel Focus: Transitioning data into the digital age from creation to
consumption (40 mins)

Facilitator: Mardi McBrien, Director Strategic Affairs, IFRS Foundation
Panel:
● David Wray, President of DFCG International Group and Co-Founder of the
DSD-Lab
● John Bottega, President, EDM Council
● Dr. Iheanyi Anyahara, Technical Director, Financial Reporting Council Nigeria

Closing (5 mins)
The concluding comments will be given by:
○ Michael Hugman, Director of Climate Finance, Children’s Investment Fund
Foundation