Mandatory climate disclosure is now law — Group 2 entered scope in July 2026. Learn what the regime actually requires and build your entity's obligations map, gap analysis, disclosure outlines, and modern slavery statement — with the verification and greenwashing disciplines that keep directors safe.
Australia's mandatory climate reporting regime is live: Group 1 has lodged its first sustainability reports, Group 2 (mid-market) entered scope for financial years from 1 July 2026, and Group 3 follows in 2027. This course serves the teams who now own a statutory report — mostly without Group 1 budgets. Tool-independent by design: your workbook, your entity's published material, and a laptop are all you need — no IT approvals, no software licences.
⚠️ The ASIC Test: "Could we hand ASIC the evidence file for this sentence tomorrow?" — applied to every claim, every exercise, throughout the day.
Map exactly which mandatory obligations apply to your entity — climate reporting group, Modern Slavery Act, NGER — with a compliance calendar
Run a gap analysis against AASB S2's four pillars: governance, strategy, risk management, metrics & targets
Draft disclosure content with every claim traced to evidence
Build data-gap registers and methodology memos that survive assurance
Draft a modern slavery statement aligned to the announced reform direction
Leave with a 90-day action plan and an assessed Disclosure-Ready Pack capstone, built for your own entity — not sample material
Every exercise uses published or placeholder information. Unreleased results, market-sensitive information, and supplier personal data never enter any workshop artifact — at any point during the course.
Every exercise runs on a structured worksheet from the participant workbook — filled in for your own entity, using published or placeholder information only. They become your team's reusable templates.
OBLIGATION | APPLIES? | FIRST PERIOD | KEY DATES | OWNER Climate reporting (which group?) ... Modern Slavery Act ... NGER / Safeguard ... → Backwards calendar from first lodgement. → Every legal conclusion marked [confirm with advisers].
PILLAR | WHAT S2 ASKS | WHAT WE HAVE | GAP | EFFORT | OWNER Governance ... Strategy (incl. scenario analysis) ... Risk management ... Metrics & targets ... → Built from your PUBLISHED material: annual report, governance statement, website sustainability content.
S2 REQUIREMENT | OUR ARRANGEMENT (as published) | EVIDENCE REFERENCE Board oversight of climate risks ... Management's role ... Skills and competence ... → First person plural, honest maturity language, evidence reference against every claim.
MANDATORY CRITERION | OUR CURRENT POSITION (honest) | EVIDENCE WE HOLD Structure, operations, supply chains ... Risks identified ... Due diligence & remediation ... Effectiveness (outcomes, not activity) ... → No supplier names, no personal information. Built for the reform direction, not boilerplate.
The sustainability report is a statutory document with your directors' names on it. Every discipline below is covered in detail during the course.
Unreleased results, unreleased emissions data, board papers, M&A, and guidance changes stay inside controlled systems. Continuous disclosure obligations don't pause for drafting — a discipline for every tool and channel the reporting team uses.
Emissions figures are produced by your measurement systems and pass through your controls. The narrative explains the numbers — methodology, movements, targets — it never substitutes for them.
Modern slavery work de-identifies completely: no supplier names, no personal information, no grievance detail. Protected disclosures stay protected.
ASIC's greenwashing actions have produced multi-million dollar Federal Court penalties. The pattern in every case: the claim outran the evidence. Before any claim leaves the building — could you hand over the evidence file tomorrow?
Describe the company you are, not the one you want. The modified liability regime rewards disciplined honesty about imperfect first-year data — aspirational drafting is where greenwashing starts.
The regime is new and moving — thresholds, guidance, and assurance phasing all change. Every regulatory claim is flagged until checked against the current AASB, ASIC, and legislative sources.
Start free online today, or book the facilitated workshop for your team. No software licences or IT approvals needed either way.
The full course, self-paced: 21 modules, about 7 hours, built around your own entity's published material.
Open to reporting entity staff, advisers, and consultants.
Delivered at your offices. Customised to your reporting group, sector, and first reporting year.
Book for your reporting team or enquire about on-site delivery before your first reporting year.