Strategic Focus: Understanding Approaches To Materiality
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Executive Summary
With an unprecedented wave of recent and impending reporting regulations, corporates must understand the reporting landscape and the different approaches to materiality. Although there are two distinct definitions of materiality, executives should be prepared to embed both impact and financial materiality into their ESG and sustainability disclosures. Doing so will allow an organization to communicate a comprehensive picture of its sustainability impact as well as its approach to managing ESG and sustainability risk. This report provides an overview of the current and forthcoming developments relating to materiality assessments and the impact these will have on firms’ reporting processes.
Table of contents
Materiality assessments lay foundations for sustainability strategiesFirms must contend with two coexisting pillars of materiality
Widespread adoption of double materiality brings new challenges for firms
Firms will align materiality assessments with their ESG ambitions
Table of figures
Figure 1. Example of double materiality matrixFigure 2. Double materiality is gaining traction amongst corporates
Figure 3. Comparison of impact, financial and double materiality assessments
Organisations mentioned
AXA, Bureau Veritas, C3.ai, Cervest, Climate X, Datamaran, ERM, ESG Global Advisors, European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG), EY, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Goldman Sachs, Halliburton, International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation (IFRS), International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), Jupiter, MSCI Inc., Norges Bank Investment Management, One Concern, Position Green, RepRisk, S&P Global, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Sustainalytics, TSC, UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), UL Solutions, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)About the authors
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