Accountants across the globe are encouraged to explore the prospects for green transition and how to make AI work for sustainability.

At ACCA’s virtual 2025 Sustainability Conference thousands of delegates heard from experts on the next steps the finance profession needs to take to ensure it is at the heart of creating sustainable businesses that work for all. 

Now in its second year, the conference also heard about accounting for carbon-related instruments, implementing sustainability reporting and the key requirements of ISA 5000, the emerging standard on sustainability assurance standards. 

Prospects for the green transition are uncertain. Amid the cost-of-living crisis and rise of populist parties, recent years have seen retreating by developed countries on some of their policies intended to achieve the green transition. In as session led by Jakob Thomä, Project Director, Inevitable Policy Response, and Jonathan Ashworth, Chief Economist, ACCA the conference looked at the state of the global green transition, including developments in major countries and the major risks.

Sharon Machado, Head of Sustainable Business, ACCA, and conference chair, said: ‘The current geopolitical and geoeconomic uncertainties make an event like this even more important for our global membership. The insights being shared are about being a sustainable business: as a minimum resilient but ideally thriving so being financially profitable while also socially and environmentally responsible.’

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