In a surprising development, several of Europe’s largest chemical companies claim that hazardous substances are not relevant enough to include in their mandatory sustainability reporting under the EU’s new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The finding comes from a new analysis published today by pollution watchdog ChemSec, which has compiled and compared the CSRD reports from the companies ranked in this year’s ChemScore. This marks the first third-party evaluation of how the chemical sector is handling the EU’s most ambitious sustainability reporting framework to date. “We wanted to understand what the chemical industry actually reports under CSRD,…
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