What is CSR?

  • main objectives
    • spreading the sustainability requirements outside of EU borders
      • complete supply chain
    • steering investments towards environmental objectives
    • gathering information to base further directives / incentives upon

Which firms CSRD?

  • “large” … more like middle sized (25 mil assets, 50 mil revenue, 250+ employees)
  • uniform EU standards
  • duties:
    • i guess revenues, CAPEX, OPEX
    • i guess machine readable format

Double Materiality and implications

  • Double Materiality involves externalities (effected and effecting)
    • effected … by which external costs due to climate change am I infected
      • e.g. farmers don’t have as much access to water watering costs rise considerably, maybe beyond earnings making farming unviable
    • effecting … assessing which external costs are caused due to own actions
      • e.g. production produces a lot of e-waste which is offshored to 3rd world countries by waste handling company
  • implication
    • taking a look at complete supply chain, exposing hidden externalities
    • making the previously only estimated concrete

Assurance, main characteristics

  • mandatory limited assurance for now Limited
    • check for completeness
    • not for correctness
  • mandatory reasonable assurance eventually Reasonable
    • also check for correctness

5

1, 3 3 not sure

6

3

7

2 1 … creditors are not included 3 … board of directors = executive leadership

8

4 1 just false, 2 is false too aim is to provide better corp gov, 3 not different shareholders

9

1, 4 3 false; just size, 4 is true; looked at slides, 2 isn’t every activity related to climate change?