September 15 2021 (Brussels): Mirjam Wolfrum, Director Policy Engagement at CDP Europe, has been appointed to support the Secretariat of the EFRAG (European Financial Reporting Advisory Group) Project Task Force on European sustainability reporting standards (PTF-ESRS).
The Project Task Force has been invited by EFRAG to begin work on elaborating the new EU sustainability reporting standards, with a view to passing responsibility to EFRAG sustainability reporting bodies once established.
Ms. Wolfrum joins a group of around 20 investor, corporate, accountancy and civil society representatives, whose role as Secretariat is to provide technical expertise, project management and drafting input to the Task Force responsible for the standards. Specifically, Ms. Wolfrum is supporting the work on biodiversity and ecosystem disclosures.
Ms. Wolfrum’s joining of the Secretariat follows the European Commission’s adoption in April of a legislative proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which would oblige companies under scope to report in compliance with European sustainability reporting standards adopted by the European Commission as delegated acts. The CSRD proposal includes that, in parallel with its legislative process, EFRAG drafts the new sustainability standards according to due process, with public oversight and the expertise of relevant stakeholders.
Commenting on her appointment, Mirjam Wolfrum said:
“I am delighted to support the development of the EU’s sustainability reporting standards, since they are the remaining critical element – together with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, the Taxonomy Regulation and the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation – of the most ambitious corporate reporting framework globally. My involvement in this work enables me to inform a critical pillar of EU legislation in the European Green Deal, using CDP’s 20 years’ worth of expertise driving environmental accountability and action through mainstreaming disclosure. With jurisdictions around the globe now moving to raise the standards of mandatory corporate reporting, I am pleased to support EFRAG’s mandate to develop standards that oblige companies to report a wide range of relevant environmental data according to a double materiality perspective.”
Ms. Wolfrum is supporting the PTF-ESRS Secretariat for half of her time until presumably March 2022 and will continue in her role as Director Policy Engagement with CDP Europe during this period.
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