May 3, 2022 (Berlin): Commenting on the release by the European Financial Advisory Reporting Group (EFRAG) of the draft European sustainability reporting standards, CDP CEO Paul Simpson said:
“The EU has shown leadership in creating sustainability standards covering companies’ impacts on people and planet, as well as environmental-related risk information – what the EU calls "double materiality". With the environmental crisis needing immediate attention, this much needed strengthening of EU disclosure rules will bring more accountability, a better understanding of risks and opportunities and of the progress against EU and global goals, and will raise the bar on what is expected from companies. For example, CDP data shows just 1 in 20 listed companies have strong targets to reduce emissions, water use and deforestation impact, and around 50% of emissions reported aren’t covered by science-based targets to align with 1.5 degrees. Corporates are not moving fast enough to ensure what they do align with our planet’s limits. That’s why these standards’ requirement that companies report a wide range of relevant science-based environmental data is so key.
With 13,000 companies currently disclosing environmental data to CDP, we are committed, through mainstreaming the European standards and other emerging global standards at scale through our disclosure system, to providing global capital market actors with a one-stop shop to access comparable, high-quality sustainability data produces under different global standards.”
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- Mona Monzer, CDP, email : [email protected]
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