Sustainability Reporting Standards Board
                                                                                                                                    The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
                                                                                                                                                                  June 20, 2022
                                                                                       Announcement
                               Invitation for Expression of Interest – suggestions on reducing carbon footprints
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is the second largest professional body
of Chartered Accountants in the world, with a strong tradition of service to the Indian
economy in public interest. As one of the steps towards partnering in nation building, ICAI has
constituted Sustainability Reporting Standards Board (SRSB) in February, 2020 with the
mission to bring sustainability reporting and thinking within mainstream business practices
both in the public and private sectors. Since inception, the Board has taken various initiatives
and is working persistently for contribution towards attainment of the global call of
sustainability by increasing awareness and implementing measures to improve sustainability.
The 21st World Congress of Accountants (WCOA) 2022, organized by the International Federation
of Accountants (IFAC), is being hosted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). It
is scheduled to be held from November 18-21, 2022, in India’s financial capital, Mumbai at the Jio
World Convention Centre. For more information about the WCOA event, please visit the web-link
given below: https://www.wcoa2022mumbai.org/
SRSB is inviting expression of interest from external / third-party carbon offset agencies and
carbon credit advisory firms who are engaged in measurement of carbon footprint, suggesting
steps to mitigate carbon emission, facilitating implementation of steps, computation of
carbon emission, offset mechanism and providing carbon neutral certification for the event.
Interested agencies are requested to send brief profile, nature of services provided by them
and preliminary proposal, at sustainability@icai.in latest by June 30, 2022. SRSB will evaluate
the responses and the shortlisted ones will be contacted for further discussion. It may be
noted that the decision of the Board will be final in this regard.
            Chairman                                                                                                                                                     Vice-Chairperson
                                                                       Sustainability Reporting Standards Board
                                                                    The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India