Opinion piece.
After failing miserably the job of maintaining confidence in the credibility of management system certification, the IAF now wants to inject itself in the oversight of bodies performing verification of ESG claims such as sustainability reports. That would be a disaster as the coalition of willing AB’s has demonstrated profusely its lack of vision, seriousness and competence in it’s oversight role. Seems to me that they want to grab a piece of the emerging and potentially enormous ESG attestation pie. Let’s hope the serious stakeholders are able to keep the IAF as far as possible from this verification, validation and attestation work as possible.
After failing miserably the job of maintaining confidence in the credibility of management system certification, the IAF now wants to inject itself in the oversight of bodies performing verification of ESG claims such as sustainability reports. That would be a disaster as the coalition of willing AB’s has demonstrated profusely its lack of vision, seriousness and competence in it’s oversight role. Seems to me that they want to grab a piece of the emerging and potentially enormous ESG attestation pie. Let’s hope the serious stakeholders are able to keep the IAF as far as possible from this verification, validation and attestation work as possible.
