The ISAR Honours 2023 Ceremony, UNCTAD's Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on ISAR 40th session, part of the World Investment Forum 2023

Recognizing worldwide efforts towards sustainability reporting

ISAR Honours celebrates innovative developments, raises awareness, and promotes national and global best practices in sustainability and SDG reporting.

The program acknowledges policy, institutional, or capacity-building initiatives in member States that encourage enterprises to publish data on their contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The program particularly welcomes proposals from developing countries to recognize their efforts and improve enterprise sustainability reporting by integrating environmental, social, and governance information into their reporting cycle.

The main outcome of the program is to identify and disseminate best practices, supporting the UNCTAD mandate to advance its work on international standards of accounting and reporting, and to promote best practices on sustainability reporting and corporate transparency.

It also aims to raise awareness of the ISAR role as an open forum on sustainability reporting matters, enhancing the harmonization of reporting in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals.