IFRS S2
Climate-related disclosures, read paragraph by paragraph.
IFRS S2, block by block.
The Standard runs to 37 numbered paragraphs and three appendices, and every requirement sits in one of six structural blocks.
Pick a block to see its range and what it asks for.
Why the number matters more here than usual
The same numbering carries into UK SRS S2, so a paragraph reference is portable between the two standards.
A reference without its standard is ambiguous. A reference with it is checkable in one click.
The four pillars, and their ranges.
Governance ¶¶5–7 · Strategy ¶¶8–23 · Risk management ¶¶24–26 · Metrics and targets ¶¶27–37.
Strategy is sixteen paragraphs. Risk management is three.
“Consistent with”, and then more
The IFRS Foundation’s own word for the TCFD relationship is “consistent with”, not “fully incorporates”.
IFRS S2 then asks for three things TCFD does not: industry-based metrics, planned use of carbon credits, and financed emissions.
IFRS S2 paragraph 6.
¶6(a) requires the entity to identify the body or individual responsible, not describe one in the abstract.
Five things about that body, and one of them reaches executive pay.
The limb that surprises people
¶6(a)(v) covers target-setting oversight and asks whether performance metrics are in remuneration policies, cross-referring to ¶29(g).
IFRS S2 paragraph 10, limb by limb.
¶10 sits inside the strategy pillar and asks for four things about every climate-related risk and opportunity.
Three of them are routinely done. The fourth is routinely skipped, and it is the one that makes the other three checkable.
(a) and (b) — describe, then classify
Describe the risks and opportunities that could reasonably be expected to affect the entity’s prospects, then say of each risk whether it is physical or transition.
“Prospects” is the Standard’s shorthand for what ¶2 names: effects on the entity’s cash flows, its access to finance or cost of capital.
(c) — and put a horizon on each one
For each risk and opportunity, specify over which time horizons the effects could reasonably be expected to occur.
“Short, medium or long term” means nothing until (d) makes you say what those are.
(d) — the limb most summaries leave out
Explain how the entity defines short, medium and long term, and how those definitions link to the planning horizons it actually uses for strategic decision-making.
That last clause is the teeth: the horizons in the climate disclosure have to be the horizons the business actually plans on.
And two paragraphs that qualify it
¶11 sets the evidence standard — all reasonable and supportable information available without undue cost or effort.
¶12 requires the entity to refer to and consider the industry-based disclosure topics in the Industry-based Guidance.
IFRS S2 paragraph 29(f).
¶29 lists seven cross-industry metric categories. (f) is internal carbon prices, and it has two limbs.
(f)(i) — whether and how you use one
An explanation of whether and how the entity is applying a carbon price in decision-making, with the Standard’s own examples: investment decisions, transfer pricing and scenario analysis.
(f)(ii) — and the price itself
The price for each metric tonne of greenhouse gas emissions the entity uses to assess the costs of its emissions.
Not a range, not a methodology. The price per tonne.
What the Standard means by the term
Appendix A defines an internal carbon price as a price used to assess the financial implications of changes to investment, production and consumption patterns.
¶31 then sends you to ¶¶B64–B65 for the application guidance on (b) to (g).
The neighbour that catches people
¶29(g) asks for the percentage of executive management remuneration recognised in the period that is linked to climate-related considerations.
¶6(a)(v) points at it from the governance pillar, so the two have to agree.
IFRS S2 paragraph 29(a).
Absolute gross emissions for the reporting period, in metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent, classified as Scope 1, 2 and 3.
Absolute and gross. Not net, and not intensity alone.
The disaggregation people miss
¶29(a)(iv) requires Scope 1 and 2 to be split between the consolidated accounting group and other investees.
Scope 1, 2 and 3 under ¶29(a).
Scope 2 is the one with an extra limb: ¶29(a)(v) also requires the location-based figure.
Scope 3 is not one number. It is a statement of which categories you included.
And financed emissions if you are a financial institution
¶29(a)(vi)(2) requires additional information about financed emissions for asset management, commercial banking and insurance.
IFRS S2 paragraph 22.
¶22 requires the entity to use climate-related scenario analysis to assess its climate resilience.
It is not offered as an option, and the approach must be commensurate with the entity’s circumstances.
What ¶22(b)(i) asks about the inputs
Which scenarios were used and where they came from, whether the range was diverse, whether they addressed transition or physical risks, whether one aligned with the latest international agreement on climate change, why each was relevant, the time horizons, and the scope of operations covered.
“We ran a 1.5°C scenario” answers one item on that list.
And the reporting period it was done in
¶22(b)(iii) requires the reporting period in which the analysis was carried out, which stops a three-year-old scenario being presented as current.
What changed in December 2025.
¶¶29A to 29C were added, letting an entity limit Category 15 to its financed emissions.
These are the ISSB’s changes. UK endorsement did not make them.
Why the attribution matters
UK SRS S2 is based on IFRS S2 as amended in December 2025, so the amended paragraphs arrive in the UK standard already made.
How IFRS S2 becomes UK SRS S2.
Annex A of the government’s consultation response maps every difference, and states its own scoping rule: where a requirement is not in the table, there is no difference.
The one place the UK is stricter
¶B59A was added to require an entity to explain why it could not disclose financed emissions in line with ¶B59, where it judged that impracticable.
Every other UK change is permissive. B59A runs the other way.
And the asymmetry in the reliefs
UK SRS S2 ¶C3 keeps its first-period limit; ¶C4, the Scope 3 relief, has no time limit at all.
So “the C4 relief expires after year one” is true of IFRS S2 and false of UK SRS S2.
Where IFRS S2 stands in the UK.
IFRS S2 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2024, under its own ¶C1.
UK SRS S2 has no effective date. The government removed it.
What that leaves
The FCA has consulted on requiring listed companies to report against UK SRS S2, and its Policy Statement was still unpublished as this page was written.
Every requirement has a number.
Ask for the number.
IFRS S2 and the TCFD.
The IFRS Foundation’s own word is “consistent with” the four core recommendations and eleven recommended disclosures.
The Task Force fulfilled its remit and disbanded in 2023, and monitoring passed to the IFRS Foundation.
“Fully incorporates” is the wrong word, because IFRS S2 asks for more.
It adds industry-based metrics, planned use of carbon credits, and financed emissions — none of which the TCFD recommendations require.
IFRS S2 and the European standards.
IFRS S2 applies a single, financial test: effects on cash flows, access to finance or cost of capital, per ¶2.
The European standards add an impact limb on top of a financial limb worded almost identically.
Neither test is “enterprise value”. That phrase appears in neither standard.
The revised ESRS were adopted on 3 July 2026 and apply to financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2027, so any comparison should say which ESRS version it used.
Adoption beyond the UK.
IFRS S2 is a global baseline that jurisdictions adopt, endorse or adapt individually rather than a directly applicable law.
The United Kingdom’s route was endorsement into UK SRS S2, with the differences mapped in Annex A.
A jurisdiction count is a number with a date attached. This page gives you the list instead.
The figures in circulation are dated and the cluster record holds none it can stand behind, so the tracker below is linked rather than summarised.
Where to go next.
If you arrived looking up one paragraph, these are the pages that carry the rest.
IFRS S2: questions readers ask.
Every claim, and where it came from.
Every paragraph on this page is quoted from or cited to the text of IFRS S2 as amended in December 2025.
The IFRS Foundation publishes that text free and without a sign-in, so every reference here is checkable in one click.
Where a requirement belongs to the UK standard rather than to IFRS S2, the entry says which.
- IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures — December 2025
- IFRS S2 — the June 2023 text, for comparison
- IFRS S1 General Requirements — the standard S2 sits under
- IFRS S2 — the Standard’s own page
- The ISSB
- TCFD — Final Recommendations
- GHG Protocol — Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (2004)
- GHG Protocol — Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard (2011)
- PCAF and financed emissions
- DBT — UK SRS consultation response, Annex A
- GOV.UK — UK SRS S1 and UK SRS S2
- FCA CP26/5
- uksrs.org.uk — the UK SRS S2 record
- IFRS sustainability reporting — cluster reference
- EFRAG — sustainability reporting
- European Commission — revised ESRS adopted, 3 July 2026
- IFRS Foundation — ISSB issues IFRS S1 and IFRS S2
- IFRS Foundation — ISSB issues targeted amendments to IFRS S2
- IFRS Foundation — the amendments project page
- IFRS Foundation — use by jurisdiction
- IFRS Foundation — SASB Standards
Carried over, so no citation is lost
The fact record from which every entry is drawn is the cluster’s reference at uksrs.org.uk.