Speakers
Background and objective of the session
As the CSRD complements the NFRD, the regulatory landscape on sustainability disclosures becomes clearer for corporates and gets closer to the aim of the EC to raise non-financial reporting to the magnitude of financial reporting. However, despite this craze for ESG metrics it seems that ESG assessments by financial market participants is still hampered by a significant lack of data that may be due to a time constraint, a lack of practice and knowhow from corporates, important heterogeneities, or also accessibility issues.
While another session focuses on the need to further harmonise non-financial information standards at the global level, this session aims to address this data gap and to identify remaining challenges for corporates, financial market participants and regulators.
Questions to be addressed
- How to
ensure corporates produce ESG data that respond to the challenges posed by the CSRD? How to achieve a consistent assessment of qualitative information, at a sectorial, European, and global level, while moving away from binary data and aiming at more efficient disclosures? How can sustainability reporting requirements be fitted to account for a heterogeneous data gathering powerbetween corporates and embark SMEs? What are the specific challenges raised by forward looking assessments and related data? - To what extend can the private sector provide an expertise and support that fills remaining data gaps? How to ensure transparency of their data collecting, processing, and rating methodologies?
- How will the European Single Access Point (ESAP) contribute to bridge data challenges and mitigate associated risks (reliability, compatibility, accessibility)?