ISSB Consultation Deadline: What the New Agricultural and Utilities Standards Mean for Your Industry

LAST CHANCE!

The ISSB is consulting on proposed updates to three remaining industry-specific SASB Standards: Agricultural Products, Meat, Poultry & Dairy, and Electric Utilities & Power Generators. Comments on the proposed amendments are due this week - by July 24th. I've been highlighting key changes to encourage you to take part in the surveys:

🥩 Meat, Poultry & Dairy

The proposed updates:

• 🆕 New disclosures: a new metric on methane emissions, plus a new disclosure topic and metric on Product Innovation.
• 📊 Improved metrics: revised metrics across greenhouse gas emissions, energy management, water management, land use and ecological impacts, food safety, antibiotic use, workforce health and safety, and animal care and welfare.
• 🔗 Revised approach to supply chain disclosures: reorganizes disclosure topics and replaces metrics to better capture risks and opportunities related to deforestation, sensitivity to nature- and climate-related physical risks, nutrient management, traceability of sourced products, and environmental and social due diligence.

If Meat, Poultry & Dairy are relevant to your company's operations or value chain, please consider responding to help shape the future of reporting.