The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is a European regulation which requires large companies above a threshold to disclose risks and opportunities related to ESG practices, and is planned to take effect in 2024. Topics companies are required to report on to include carbon, water, pollution, biodiversity, and other ESG topics.
Companies are required to disclose through annual reports with financial information and Forward-looking and Retrospective statements, Qualitative and Quantitative information, short, medium, and long term plans.
Also, they will have to consider the entire value constituted by the supply chain, give users an integrated view of the companies on issues of sustainability and how these can impact the development, performance and positioning of the company itself.
Finally, an inclusion of the disclosure of sustainability as a section of the management report in a Single XHTML format is set forth by the Directive.