CSDDD: Decoding the directive - whitepaper launch
Download our new whitepaper, published with our partners 60 Decibels, guiding your first steps to implementing the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.
The context
Companies are facing a torrent of new ESG regulation, as the EU expands the regulatory reach of its Green Deal.
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) have been presenting the most pressing focus for corporates in 2024. But in the coming year, sustainability teams will also have to turn their attention to the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
With one of the big lessons emerging from CSRD preparation that almost nobody started quite early enough, we’ve partnered with 60 decibels, a human rights measurement and monitoring company, to produce a practical guide to how to start getting ready well ahead of time.
“There’s no-one in our business who actually knows our whole value chain well enough for CSDDD.”
The importance of starting now
CSDDD moves beyond CSRD’s requirement for corporate transparency, and instead focuses on corporate responsibility. Responsibility to identify, prevent, and remedy harms that take place anywhere across a company’s global supply chain. And with potential fines set at up to 5% of net annual turnover, sustainability, procurement, and legal teams need to start planning ahead.
Our new whitepaper, published jointly with 60 Decibels, is based on conversations with practitioners taking their first preparatory steps. We set out what CSDDD requires, and what actions companies should be taking in 2025 to avoid a last-minute rush.
“Our supply chain includes hundreds of thousands of farmers; right now we have no way to get decent data from them.”
The timeline for implementation
Just as with other ground-breaking pieces of legislation, from GDPR to CSRD, the requirements are being phased in over time. The first set of in-scope companies will be caught from 2027 .
A thank you to the practitioners we spoke to
We’d like to say a big thanks to the sustainability, procurement and legal practitioners who shared their open and frank perspectives and experiences as they’ve started their CSDDD preparations.
We’d be delighted to share more of what we’ve heard, and our perspective on how to make a practical start.
For more details, fill in the form above and download our practical guide.
Tom Carr
Sustainability Strategy Director
Nick Wyver
Consultancy Director
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