Session 7 – Integrating Indigenous Values into Sustainability Reporting (New Zealand)

Indigenous values are, by-and-large, excluded from existing financial and non-financial reporting frameworks. To address this gap, New Zealand’s reporting standard setter, the External Reporting Board, has developed a non-financial reporting framework with a focus on the perspectives and needs of Māori reporting entities so they can demonstrate and authentically tell their story of value and impact beyond monetary perspectives. Panelists will discuss how this framework is benefitting from deep collaboration with Māori entities and how it aims to achieve better recognition of the intergenerational value that Māori entities contribute to the New Zealand economy.

Introduction by: Charles-Antoine St-Jean FCPA, FCA, Chair, Canadian Sustainability Standards Board

» Joe Hanita (Ngāti Kuia, Te Ātiawa, Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu), Chair – Ngā pou o te kawa ora Kaitiaki Group, New Zealand External Reporting Board
» April Mackenzie, Chief Executive, New Zealand External Reporting Board
» Moderator: Dara Kelly-Roy Kw’ekw’exós (Leq’á:mel First Nation, Stó:lō), Assistant Professor, Indigenous Business, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University