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On 22 August 2024, the Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Market Infrastructure and Other Measures) Bill 2024 (the Bill) passed the Senate with amendments. From there, it will return to the House of Representatives to approve the amendments, which is expected to go ahead.

Following recent decisions made at the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) meetings, we now have a very clear sense of what the final Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS) will look like.

Following the exposure draft legislation earlier this year, the Government has introduced a bill into Parliament to implement mandatory climate-related financial disclosure requirements.

On 12 January 2024, Treasury released draft legislation on mandatory climate-related financial disclosures in Australia. Subject to the legislation being enacted by Parliament and receiving Royal Assent by the end of June 2024, the legislation will be in force for financial years commencing on or after 1 July 2024.

The purpose of this Alert is to draw attention to the Climate-related financial disclosure: exposure draft legislation consultation (Draft Legislation) published by the Australian Treasury on 12 January 2024. This draft legislation follows Treasury’s second consultation paper on the subject (June 2023).

The purpose of this Alert is to draw attention to the Australian Sustainability Reporting Exposure Draft ED SR1 (“ASRS Exposure Draft”) published by the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) in October 2023.

The Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) has released the exposure drafts of three proposed Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards: [Draft] ASRS 1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information; [Draft] ASRS 2 Climate-related Disclosures, and [Draft] ASRS 101 References in Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards.

There have been some recent developments in the Australian market in relation to mandatory sustainability reporting, which is likely to significantly impact most companies required to prepare general purpose financial reports.