IFRS Foundation

And so always good to be there.

I was in Switzerland because last month we announced a new five-year financing and funding plan for the IFRS Foundation and the ISSB.

And as part of that plan, we are enhancing our multi-location model for the ISSB with a new office in Geneva that will open mid-next year.

So thanks to the seed funding, the ISSB has used a multi-location model to foster adoption and build capacity for implementation of our standards since we were established in 2021.

So luckily, a number of companies and other organizations are starting to do more and more of that work.

The IFRS Foundation, which is the reporting system for financial numbers in Europe, has started an instrument called the ISSB, the International Sustainability Standard Board, which will provide protocols to measure the impact.

So that, I think, is one important bit.

The second bit, which we explore in the book, is this idea of saying, well, what price is nature? You know, if I look at the tree in front of my house, just at the moment, across the window, there is a tree.

We'll include a link in our show notes to recent episodes and to that report.

As Patrick alluded to, in August 2026, the IFRS Foundation announced Geneva as the location for the new ISSB office.

Okay, back to our conversation.

And you also, Patrick, described this focus at the Building Bridges Summit this year on moving from these long-established challenges to finding these investable kind of concrete solutions.