Effective date and transition
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Organisations must implement this standard for annual reporting periods starting on or after 1 January 2024.
Early adoption is allowed. If adopting early, the organisation must disclose this fact and simultaneously apply IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures.
An organisation does not need to provide this standard’s disclosures for periods before initial application. This means no comparative information is required in the first annual reporting period when applying this standard.
In its first year applying this standard, an organisation may publish its sustainability disclosures after releasing its financial statements. When using this transition option, the organisation must issue its sustainability disclosures:
- with its next second-quarter or half-year interim financial report, if required to produce such reports;
- with its next second-quarter or half-year interim financial report (but within nine months of the fiscal year-end), if voluntarily producing interim reports; or
- within nine months of the fiscal year-end, if not required to and not voluntarily producing interim financial reports.
In its first year applying this standard, an organisation may limit disclosures to climate-related risks and opportunities (following IFRS S2) and only apply requirements relevant to climate disclosures. When using this option, the organisation must disclose it has done so.
If the organisation chooses to limit disclosures to climate-related risks and opportunities:
in its first year applying this standard, it doesn’t need to provide comparative climate-related risk and opportunity disclosures; and
in its second year applying this standard, it doesn’t need to provide comparative sustainability disclosures except for climate-related ones.