Die Zahl der Regulierungsinitiativen, die auch eine nichtfinanzielle Offenlegung vorschreiben, steigt rapide an. Zwischen 2013 und 2018 ist die Zahl der erfassten Regulierungen um 72 % gestiegen. Vor allem in den letzten Jahren hat dieser Trend eine noch größere und bestimmendere Rolle eingenommen und ist der Grund für diesen CSRD-bezogenen Beitrag. Die DFGE hat diesen…
The number of regulatory initiatives which are also requiring non-financial disclosure is growing rapidly. Between 2013 and 2018, there has been a 72% increase in the number of recorded regulations. Especially in the past years, this trend took an even broader and more defining role and are the reason of this CSRD related post. DFGE…
Buy consciously, dress sustainably, wear it longer, dispose it in an environmentally friendly way. Invest sustainably in our planet, it is the only home we have. Your clothes make people / sustainable, organic, fair – this is the motto for the Earth Day and formulates the requirement for each of us to commit to resource…
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) season 2022 has officially started. Already in January of this year CDP has released its 2022 questionnaire and reporting guidances for Forest, Water Security, and Climate Change. The updated scoring methodologies for all questionnaires, i.e. the exact information on how CDP scores each question, was released in March. As of…
End of March the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its proposed rules to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures for publicly traded companies. The proposed regulations go hand in hand with the increasing importance of climate-related issues on the capital markets thus rising transparency requirements. In this blog post, we will give you a…
The S&P Global questionnaires for CSA 2022 will open on April 5, 2022 (DJSI) and May 5, 2022 (ESG Indices). Due to the growing interest of stakeholders in sustainability and climate change, it is becoming increasingly important for companies to make their sustainability efforts transparent. In addition to sustainability reports with environmental, social, and governance…
The EU Taxonomy is a regulatory classification tool that helps investors, companies and financial institutions to define environmentally sustainable economic activities. It sets standardized requirements under which conditions corporate activities can be considered sustainable. The taxonomy does not ban investments in activities not labelled „green“, but it limits which ones companies and investors can claim…
After three years of Covid, people around the world are undoubtedly tired of sliding from one crisis to the next. Especially compared to the ongoing pandemic and the Ukrainian war, other global crises seem to lose importance. Experts emphasize the danger of ignoring surfacing warning signs. Besides the ongoing pandemic, supply chain disruptions, inflation, debt,…
During the last couple of years, the number of climate neutral claims for individual products or by entire organizations has risen drastically. Numerous of such claims faced legal complications and government regulations, as seen for instance in France. Companies have gone even further by claiming to become climate positive or carbon negative in the near…
Am Mittwoch, den 10.03.2022 fand das alljährliche CDP Europe Awards 2022 statt. Wie im letzten Jahr, fand die zweistündige Veranstaltung virtuell statt und konnte sowohl auf der Webseite von CDP, als auch bei Euronews verfolgt werden. Hierbei wurden die diesjährigen A-List Kandidaten des CDP Ratings gefeiert. Da die Teilnehmer wie im letzten Jahr nicht vor…
