Preface

Standards amended by AASB S2025-1

This Standard makes amendments to Australian Sustainability Reporting Standard AASB S2 Climate-related Disclosures (September 2024).

These amendments follow the issuance of amendments to IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standard IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) in December 2025.

Main features of this Standard

Main requirements

This Standard amends AASB S2 to provide additional relief and clarify the existing relief from specific greenhouse gas emissions disclosure requirements and to amend the requirements for classifying some types of greenhouse gas emissions.

This Standard amends the requirements in AASB S2 to:

1. clarify that an entity is permitted to limit its measurement and disclosure of Scope 3 Category 15 greenhouse gas emissions to financed emissions. Consequently, the entity is permitted to exclude from its measurement and disclosure of Category 15 greenhouse gas emissions the emissions associated with financial activities, such as facilitated emissions associated with investment banking activities and emissions associated with insurance and reinsurance underwriting activities;
2. replace the requirement for an entity that participates in commercial banking activities or financial activities associated with the insurance industry to use the Global Industry Classification Standard to disaggregate financed emissions information by industry with less prescriptive requirements for the entity to select an industry-classification system that enables it to provide useful information about its exposure to climate-related transition risks;
3. clarify that the relief from using the method in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol: A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (2004) for measuring greenhouse gas emissions is available to an entity when a jurisdictional authority or an exchange on which the entity is listed requires the use of a different method only for the part of the entity to which that jurisdictional authority or exchange requirement applies; and
4. provide relief to an entity from using the global warming potential (GWP) values based on a 100-year time horizon from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment available at the reporting date when a jurisdictional authority or an exchange on which the entity is listed requires the use of different GWP values for the part of the entity to which that jurisdictional authority or exchange requirement applies.

Application date

This Standard applies to annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2027. Earlier application is permitted.