Archive

  • The four horsemen of the ESRS simplification apocalypse

    13 November 2025

    Final judgements due on four contested issues, with EFRAG set to approve streamlined standards on 25 November

  • From Kathmandu to Brussels via Emmanuel Faber's LinkedIn

    17 September 2025

    Why anticipated financial effects have created a Europe's sustainability soap opera

  • Double materiality made simple? EFRAG's Wim Bartels explains

    14 August 2025

    In the first instalment of Corporate Disclosures' summer series on the proposed simplified ESRS, we speak with EFRAG sustainability reporting board member Wim Bartels about the European body's plans to clarify the double materiality assessment.

  • EFRAG's five levers for ESRS simplification

    19 June 2025

    As it aims to reduce datapoints by 50% and simplify the DMA

  • Wim Bartels highlights CSRD assurance challenges

    19 May 2025
  • ESRS simplification workplan rejected by EFRAG SRB

    15 April 2025

    Ten board members vote against Secretariat proposal for streamlining standards by 31 October

  • EFRAG approves draft standards for non-EU companies

    16 January 2025

    With amendments to option for excluding information not related to products and services sold in the EU

  • EFRAG takes tentative step on non-EU standards

    19 December 2024

    Approval of exposure draft delayed, with SRB set to renew discussions in January

  • EFRAG approves draft standard for oil and gas sector

    19 September 2024

    With board members highlighting 'reservations' over first set of sector-specific disclosure requirements

  • EFRAG's guidance is coming, but is it practical?

    13 December 2023

    European stakeholders call for simplicity in the ESRS implementation guidance on materiality assessments and value chain reporting