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
- spreading the sustainability requirements outside of EU borders
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
- effected … by which external costs due to climate change am I infected
- 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
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1, 3 3 not sure
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2 1 … creditors are not included 3 … board of directors = executive leadership
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4 1 just false, 2 is false too ⇒ aim is to provide better corp gov, 3 not different shareholders
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1, 4 3 false; just size, 4 is true; looked at slides, 2 isn’t every activity related to climate change?