The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) allows companies to transparently showcase their sustainability efforts, building trust with investors, customers, and partners.
We help you create a comprehensive, high-quality transition plan with full disclosure across the ESRS E1 Standard. The process is divided into three phases:
We call this step the Discovery Phase, where we work closely with you to understand your specific requirements and sustainability goals. We assess your current practices, identify reporting gaps, and tailor our approach to your unique needs, laying the foundation for a successful transition.
By the end of this phase, you will have a clear understanding of the required data granularity, the entities and departments involved, and the desired project outcome, whether it is CSRD compliance, audit support, or SBTi alignment.
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The Discovery Phase is optional and serves as the basis for completing a corporate carbon footprint (CCF), which is required for ESRS E1 reporting.
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Step 2: Building your tailored disclosure
We help you create a CSRD-compliant CCF. Our team works with you to develop a comprehensive decarbonisation roadmap, as well as set SBTi-aligned targets, outlining actionable steps toward achieving your sustainability targets. This tailored disclosure covers all necessary aspects of the ESRS E1 Standard, ensuring clarity and compliance.
The CCF helps you meet the requirements of two E1 standards: E1-5, which covers energy consumption and mix, and E1-6, which addresses an organisation’s emissions across scopes 1, 2, and 3.
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Step 3: Formatting your disclosure
Once the tailored disclosure is developed, we format it to meet ESRS E1 submission requirements. Our team ensures the final document is both compliant and user-friendly, making it easy to present to stakeholders. We prioritise clarity and accessibility to effectively communicate your sustainability efforts.
With over 20 years of experience in carbon accounting, ClimatePartner offers more than just a software solution. Our CSRD-compliant carbon footprint combines technology with tailored support from experts. This hybrid approach enables companies to create a well-founded and auditable carbon footprint that serves as a basis for ambitious targets, effective reduction strategies, and the necessary reporting.
We help develop a comprehensive transition plan that defines your climate goals and outlines the path to achieve them. Our support includes consolidating your data points from across our work together into a structured disclosure, including a breakdown of decarbonisation levers, key actions, required resources, and strategic alignment.
We assess your company's existing policies concerning identified material impacts, risks, and opportunities. Our experts derive the required data points for your CSRD report and provide insights into potential optimisations, helping you refine your policies and strategies to align with your specific sustainability goals.
We help you develop a decarbonisation strategy by following a collaborative bottom-up approach. We conduct interviews and screen relevant materials, evaluate prioritisation and quantification, model a sophisticated emissions reduction pathway, and automatically generate datapoints for CSRD disclosure readiness.
Together, we develop science-based targets aligned with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) framework that is also usable for CSRD disclosure if needed. This includes tailored reduction targets that fit your specific needs and capabilities, near- and long-term (net zero) targets to structure a decarbonisation pathway, and support in submitting and validating targets with the SBTi.
We assist you in preparing and structuring data on your purchased carbon credits to meet CSRD requirements and optimise your reporting, including CSRD-compliant data preparation for carbon credits and accurate, complete documentation to enhance credibility.
If you have an internal carbon price, we can help you disclose it in a way that meets CSRD requirements.
FAQs
Companies are expected to begin reporting under the CSRD starting in 2024, with the first reports due in 2025 for those that fall under the directive's requirements. The specific timeline may vary depending on the size and type of the company:
The European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) are specific standards that clarify the requirements of the CSRD. They define which information companies must disclose in their sustainability reports. The ESRS cover various topics, including Environment (E), Social (S), and Governance (G). Their goal is to make reporting clear, relevant, auditable, and comparable.
ClimatePartner’s net zero cycle allows companies to disclose meaningfully across all aspects of ESRS E1, including communicating your commitment to climate action.
