What Is ESRS and How Will VSME and LSME Standards Impact SMEs?
Discover how the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) VSME and LSME frameworks are transforming sustainability reporting for SMEs.
CBAM Calculations: How to Run Them Easily
An easy 5-step guide to running CBAM calculations, staying compliant, and avoiding costly fines, all while enhancing sustainability efforts globally.
CBAM Regulation: A Short Guide to Better Understand It
What’s CBAM Regulation and how is it going to be applied to importers and exporters? Find out how this mechanism will transform global trade.
CSRD: the directive and the impact on businesses
Learn about CSRD reporting, a critical directive shaping corporate sustainability reporting in the EU, including its requirements and impact on businesses.
Green asset Ratio (GAR)
In the new framework defined by the European Taxonomy, with regard to the rules and objectives for classifying business activities that are considered environmentally, socially, and governance sustainable, a prominent point much discussed at the moment, especially in the financial world, is covered by Article 8 of the Taxonomy.
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD): new guidelines for sustainability reporting
The state of the art of European legislation aimed at defining the legislative framework for sustainable investment is certainly the most advanced and defined in the global landscape at present.
What is SFDR (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation) and its implications for firms and businesses
The scope of European Union legislation, in the field of accelerating and harmonizing rules on sustainable finance, has expanded considerably in the past few years and is gradually broadening.
GRI: what it is and how its standards are evolving
GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) is the independent, international organization that helps businesses and other organizations take responsibility for their impacts, by providing them with the global common language to communicate those impacts. It provides the world’s most widely used standards for sustainability reporting – the GRI Standards.
Sustainability strategy for large corporates: from compliance to competitiveness
In the early days of sustainability, many companies viewed it as a regulatory compliance issue. Businesses would do the minimum required to meet environmental standards and then move on, without giving much thought to how sustainability might actually benefit their operations.
Sustainability report: the role of GRI standards
Sustainability reporting has become one of the most relevant practices for organizations willing to prove their value to stakeholders also through their commitment to ESG considerations and environmental issues. There are several sustainability reporting frameworks available to executives, including a few that have become widely used and are backed by international organizations. It is a rapidly evolving set of choices, as an analysis by the Harvard Business review has pointed out. In this context, GRI standards are designed to be an easy-to-use modular set, delivering an inclusive picture of an organization's material topics, their related impacts and how they are managed.