The financial sector is counting the days until it can access the first sustainability reports of European companies following CSRD - the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. The regulation will impact reports published from 2025 onwards (with data from the 2024 fiscal year) and will initially only impact the largest corporations in Europe.
Lia Zetterlund Arsenius, Manager, Assurance & Sustainability Services at KPMG Sweden, joined Connect Earth's team to give an overview of CSRD and share how companies are preparing for their first-ever report under the new regulation.
Nora Sandahl, Head of Sustainability at Connect Earth, gave the perspective from the financial sector: how the new corporate reporting might positively transform the sustainability analysis and reporting done by financial institutions.
During the webinar, we covered the following topics:
- A basic overview of CSRD
- Initial impressions of the CSRD implementation in Europe and Sweden
- Upcoming effect of CSRD in the financial industry
- What to expect from companies' sustainability reporting in Europe moving forward