Corporate sustainability reporting and disclosure frameworks and voluntary sustainability standards and similar systems (VSS) have developed in parallel with clear complementarities. ISEAL engaged ANC Ltd, a consulting team, to explore the opportunities for mutual benefit from collaboration between sustainability reporting frameworks and VSS -- as the area was underexplored and underdeveloped. 

Based on the consultants' findings, this summary details for VSS and their partners the strategic implications of reporting frameworks and key pathways of collaboration for bigger sustainability impacts.