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  1. Recommendations for the design of sustainability reporting standards under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
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    Published: January 2022
    Publisher:  Umweltbundesamt, Dessau-Roßlau

    The European Commission’s draft of the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is intended to extend European sustainability reporting standards to cover all companies falling under the scope of the directive. Based on a comprehensive... more

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    The European Commission’s draft of the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is intended to extend European sustainability reporting standards to cover all companies falling under the scope of the directive. Based on a comprehensive evaluation of non-financial statements of German companies and supplemented by expert interviews, this policy paper formulates proposals for the design of these standards in order to improve company reporting on environmental topics. In particular, the paper addresses the requirements to be met in reporting on environmental targets, actions, and indicators. In addition to specifying requirements for the various individual aspects, the paper also focuses on the achievement of a consistent, “big picture” approach, thus allowing the results of the various measures and their effectiveness to be more easily understood and interpreted. Additionally, we address the topic of greenhouse gas (GHG) neutrality; here, recommendations are made to align reporting on GHG neutrality more closely with global and European climate targets and to make this reporting more meaningful. In particular, our point of reference should be the Net-Zero standard of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), under which the voluntary compensation of CO2 emissions is not a permitted option for neutralization. Finally, the paper focuses on how to make reporting on environmental topics compatible with disclosure requirements for the financial industry. At the very least, the standards should incorporate all of the adverse environmental indicators mandated for reporting by the so-called Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). Reporting for each of the environmental topics should be mandatory; however, the level of detail with regard to topic-related strategies, policies, targets, and actions should be based on the relevance of the respective topic for the reporting entity. Der Entwurf der Europäischen Kommission zur weiterentwickelten Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) sieht unter anderem die Entwicklung europäischer Nachhaltigkeitsberichtsstandards vor, die von allen unter den Geltungsbereich der Richtlinie fallenden Unternehmen angewandt werden sollen. Das vorliegende Policy Paper formuliert auf Basis einer umfassenden Auswertung von nicht-finanziellen Erklärungen deutscher Unternehmen und ergänzender Experteninterviews Vorschläge zur Ausgestaltung dieser Standards, um die Berichterstattung über Umweltthemen zu verbessern. Dabei geht das Papier darauf ein, welche Anforderungen an die Berichterstattung über Umweltziele, Maßnahmen und Indikatoren zu stellen sind. Neben konkretisierenden Anforderungen an die einzelnen Elemente geht es dabei insbesondere auch um eine konsistente Gesamtschau, aus der sich die Ergebnisse von Maßnahmen und ihre Beiträge zur Zielerreichung ablesen lassen. Vertieft betrachtet wird zudem das Thema Treibhausgasneutralität. Hier werden Empfehlungen gegeben, um die Berichterstattung über das Ziel Treibhausgasneutralität stärker an globale und europäische Klimaziele anzupassen und die Berichterstattung darüber aussagekräftiger zu gestalten. Empfohlen werden insbesondere eine Orientierung am Net Zero Verständnis der Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) und eine Klarstellung, dass die freiwillige Kompensation von CO2-Emissionen keine Option der Neutralisierung im Zusammenhang mit dem Net Zero Ziel ist. Ein weiterer Fokus wird darauf gelegt, wie die Berichterstattung über Umweltthemen kompatibel mit den Anforderungen an die Offenlegungsanforderungen für die Finanzbranche gestaltet werden kann. Hierfür sollten die Standards zumindest alle verpflichtenden Indikatoren für Umweltthemen enthalten, die gemäß der sog. Offenlegungsverordnung (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation - SFDR) von der Finanzbranche zu berichten sind. Hierbei sollte zu jedem Umweltthema verpflichtend zu berichten sein. Die Detailtiefe der Berichterstattung in Bezug auf themenbezogene Strategien, Politiken, Ziele und Maßnahmen sollte sich jedoch an der Relevanz der jeweiligen Themen für das Unternehmen bemessen.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Töpfer, Christoph (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    Project No. (FKZ) 3719 14 102 0
    Report No. (UBA-FB) FB00759/ENG
    Series: Texte / Umweltbundesamt ; 2022, 08
    Ressortforschungsplan of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
    Subjects: non-financial reporting; sustainability reporting; environmental reporting; climate reporting; CSRD; NFRD; CSR; reporting standards; carbon neutrality
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (37 Seiten, 1,14 MB), Illustration
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    Report completed in: January 2022

  2. Comprehension, mapping and reporting of climate-related risks among listed firms in Sweden
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Lund Institute for Sustainability Impact, Lund

    We study the comprehension, mapping, and reporting of climate-related risks among firms listed on the NasdaqOMX stock exchange in Stockholm. Our study contains two parts: i) a study on the firms' external communication through their annual reports,... more

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    We study the comprehension, mapping, and reporting of climate-related risks among firms listed on the NasdaqOMX stock exchange in Stockholm. Our study contains two parts: i) a study on the firms' external communication through their annual reports, sustainability reports and webpages, and ii) a follow-up survey addressed to each firm's management team. We find that firms are likely to engage in some form of mapping and reporting of climate-related risks. However, their comprehension of the nature of these risks, underlying problems, and what a climate transition implies varies across firms and industries. There are also substantial variations in the method employed to map and report climaterelated risks. Our results further suggest that firms use the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures' recommendations (TCFD) on how to map and report climate risks as a learning tool to improve their climate-risk management. However, as a voluntary initiative it is insufficient to generate substantial change. Consequently, policymakers should focus on improving firms' comprehension of what constitutes a climate-risk, how to map such risks and how to report them. The mapping and reporting of climate-related risk may otherwise prove an inefficient tool to redirect and accelerate investments promoting a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy.

     

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    Language: English
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    hdl: 10419/260373
    Series: LSR working paper series ; paper number: 21, 06 (October 2021)
    Subjects: climate policy; climate change; climate-risk management; climate-related risks; nonfinancial reporting; TCFD; NFRD
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 30 Seiten)