The regulatory tsunami is here
If you work in ESG or sustainability, the past three years have fundamentally changed your job. The EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) now requires nearly 50,000 companies to produce detailed sustainability disclosures — many for the first time. The SEC's Climate Disclosure rules are reshaping reporting for US-listed companies. The ISSB's IFRS S1 and S2 standards are creating a global baseline. And the TCFD recommendations, once voluntary, are becoming embedded in regulation worldwide.
Each of these frameworks requires different data points, different metrics, and different narrative disclosures. Your team is not just reporting once — you are reporting the same underlying sustainability performance through multiple lenses, for multiple jurisdictions, on overlapping timelines.
This is not a future problem. CSRD reporting began in 2024 for the first wave of companies. SEC Climate Disclosure rules are being phased in. ISSB standards are being adopted by jurisdictions globally. The window for "we'll figure it out next year" has closed.
