Guide to Green Taxonomies and EU Taxonomy Reporting Tutorial

Guide to Green Taxonomies and EU Taxonomy Reporting Tutorial free download

Green Taxonomies, Sustainable Finance, EU Regulations (EU Taxonomy, SFDR, NFRD, CSRD), Taxonomy KPIs Reporting Templates

The EU Taxonomy is one of the most important ESG regulations introduced in 2020 by the European commission. It is a cornerstone of the EU's sustainable finance framework and an important market transparency tool, helping direct investments to the economic activities most needed for the transition, in line with the EU European Green Deal objectives.

EU Taxonomy is a European classification system of environmentally sustainable economic activities. It determines science-based criteria that have to be met by businesses in order to call their operations green. The regulation also requires corporations and financial institutions to disclose a portion of their revenue, expenses, investments and assets that are aligned with the EU Taxonomy.

In this course, we will talk about the history and purpose of green taxonomies, the global developments with the main focus on the EU taxonomy. We will briefly talk about key EU sustainability regulations which are interlinked with the taxonomy regulation, including NFRD, SFDR and CSRD, and discuss why sustainable taxonomy is important for the green transition and how it is designed and used. We will look at taxonomy-related terminology, including eligible, aligned, transitional and enabling economic activities, go through the core reporting requirements of the non-financial corporations, including Turnover, CapEx and OpeEx KPIs. We will examine the main disclosures of credit institutions, and calculate Green Asset Ratios (GAR) using Turnover and CapEx approaches. You will learn about key performance indicators that investment firms, asset managers and insurance companies have to calculate and report under the EU Taxonomy. We will also talk about the benefits of the EU Taxonomy regulation compliance and challenges of reporting implementation.

The course has been designed on the request of the students who wanted to see more technical details with regards to preparation of reports. So for this course we have a fantastic guest speaker and the technical expert in ESG reporting - Anastasia Kuznetsova, who will take us through the technical side of calculating EU Taxonomy KPIs and filling in reporting templates for non-financial corporations, credit institutions, asset managers, investment firms, and insurance and reinsurance companies.

The course will benefit a wide variety of professionals including ESG and finance professionals involved in reporting, leaders aiming to integrate green taxonomies into business strategy, reporting and analytics, policymakers and regulators developing green taxonomies, management consultants as well as anyone interested in ESG regulations and sustainable finance.

Thank you for choosing our course Guide to Green Taxonomies and EU Taxonomy Reporting Tutorial.

Kind regards,

Julia Mariasova

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