The EU, Sustainability Regulations, and the Green Deal

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of EU sustainability regulations on businesses and the complexities surrounding them.

We’re boarding the EU Omnibus to see how European corporate reporting regulations affect businesses – tens of thousands of them – within the EU and beyond. The EU has been a major innovator when it comes to sustainability regulation, but it has not come without controversy. Professor Andreas, from the Copenhagen Business School Centre for Sustainability, joins us to talk about the changes that we have seen in recent years, where they have worked – and where there have been issues. We talk about why the EU gets involved in sustainability directives and regulations in the first place; discover how they have been a pacesetter in the field; and show how regulations are more than just red tape, but also question how they could be improved. We touch on the ambitions of the Green Deal, the environmental taxonomy, Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR), the attempts of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) to standardise sustainability reporting, the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), and try to understand the scope of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). All the while trying not to drown in acronym soup and looking…

People in this episode

Guest: Professor Andreas

Topics covered

• sustainability regulations
• corporate reporting
• European Union
• Green Deal
• sustainability reporting
• environmental taxonomy

Keywords

• sustainability
• EU regulations
• corporate reporting
• Green Deal
• environmental taxonomy
• SFDR
• CSRD
• CSDDD

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Copenhagen Business School Centre for Sustainability, EU, European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR), Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Green Deal

Places: EU, USA

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