Impact of Sharpened ESG Reporting Requirements

Non-financial reporting regulations are evolving at a high pace – especially in Europe. Spurred by the need to redirect finance towards achieving the EU Green Deal and the Paris Agreement, companies will have to become more transparent on their environmental and social impacts, and their strategy to mitigate ESG risks. But before you can ‘talk the walk’, you’ll need to figure out how to walk, and where towards. This article gives a brief overview of the implications of the most important European non-financial reporting requirements for companies operating in Europe, and how to get ready for them.

 

A new way of sustainability reporting: CSRD

With the aim of improving the widespread availability and use of sustainability information across different stakeholder groups, the EU Commission announced its proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The proposed...

 

3 Steps for Effectively Implementing Sustainability Strategies

Sustainability needs to be effectively integrated into the core of the business for it to flourish. An example of a sector that is struggling to put sustainability into practice is the transportation sector – evident from its 21.7% contribution to...

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THURSDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2021

ESG Acceleration Webinar: Materiality Activation

This new webinar deals with the challenge of generating real change while implementing sustainability. Together with guest speakers Rebecca Dunn, Head of Sustainability at Spectris, and Hendrik-Jan Martens, Co-Founder of De Koers, we'll explore how to transform the materiality assessment from a reporting tool to an accelerator for the activation of your sustainability program.