ISSB podcast September 2026

You've spent time in Switzerland where we'll be opening an office next year.

Thank you too.

Hello everyone who are listening to us.

And as much as Switzerland is your home, the French Alps and the Alps are my home place.

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.

And this enabled us to establish a presence in key locations, including Beijing, Frankfurt, Montreal, and Tokyo.

So we will expand on this model by setting up an office in Geneva to serve as the seat of ISSB, including hosting many of the ISSB's monthly meetings and therefore our podcast, my dear Sue.

And Geneva, of course, for us provides a natural ecosystem for our work.

It's a major international hub for sustainable finance.

a unique center for multilateral cooperation, which is so much needed in our work.

Many of our important stakeholders are based out of the city.

So this is great news that the ISSB, with its mission, will introduce our global language for sustainability related financial disclosures to jurisdictions around the world, adding Geneva as an important place for us.

I would also say Geneva will be an additional location with each of the ISSB's current offices continuing to provide key functions that enable us to deliver our strategy, including Frankfurt, which will transition to serve as a hub for the ISSB's EU engagement.

And here in Montreal, we will continue to host key functions for the ISSB in balance with Geneva.

whereas Beijing and Tokyo will continue to provide their vital support to our work.

So the decision to open this office in Geneva is part of our strategy for the next phase of the ISSB's work.

In our first five years, we established the ISSB, developed our inaugural standards, helped unite the disclosure and the landscape and secured adoption is, as you just said, as of today, 46 jurisdictions and more are coming as we know.

Over the next five years, we expect to support further adoption and implementation around the world while building out our technical offerings to support what will become more and more important with the effective adoption, which is a high-quality disclosure to investors.

So we have secured funding that, alongside existing funding agreements and earned revenue streams, provides a path for resourcing the ISSB to deliver these priorities through 2031.

From this point, as the adoption of ISSB standards matures, the ISSB will move to a more durable long-term funding model.

So I'd just like to end this section by reiterating my incredible gratitude and thanks to all of those that fund what we do.

Now more than ever, capital markets need a global language so that companies can communicate to investors their resilience to emerging sustainability-related risks and opportunities so that the market can actually price on those risks and opportunities.