Sustainability Services

Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The concept of sustainability is composed of three pillars: economic, environmental, and social—also known informally as profits, planet, and people.

The United Nations have defined a roadmap of actions that can be taken at all level of society. These are synthetised in the following 17 sustainable goals

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Corporate Social Responsibility is a corporate initiative to assess and take responsibility for the company’s effects on the environment and impact on social welfare. It can involve incurring short-term costs that do not provide an immediate financial benefit to the company, but instead promote positive social and environmental change. This corporate self-regulation is integrated into the entity’s business model.

Sustainability is an important tool in creating a corporate image and reputation but also in reducing costs and generating revenues in the long run. If this is something your business needs to implement, speak to our team of experts for bespoke sustainability advice.

Sustainability Developments We Are Taking Into 2023

Sustainability Developments We Are Taking Into 2023

Lights, Camera, Action!  As Christmas decorations have been tidied away and we have made a start at a crisp new year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past 12 months and share 2022’s most important milestones and evolutions in the realm of sustainability with all of you. 

Interconnectivity between financial and sustainability reporting

On 10 January 2023 Deborah Fischer was invited, together with 
Sustainability and ESG Disclosures Under the SFDR – Impacts on Investors and Investees

Sustainability and ESG Disclosures Under the SFDR – Impacts on Investors and Investees

In addition to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”), the long-awaited supporting Regulatory Technical Standards (“RTS”) have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 25 July 2022.

Sustainability Insights January 2022 - Sustainability, mandatory in the Management Report

Sustainability becomes increasingly important and reporting on ESG (environmental, social and governance) becomes mandatory in the Management report to underline transparently the continuity of the businesses. A common standard is launched by the European Commission under the name of CSRD.

SUNSTAINABILITY INSIGHTS - 2019.1 NEW BELGIAN GOVERNANCE CODE

The Corporate Governance Committee has recently published a new governance code, the Code 2020.

Sustainability Newsletter 2017-03 COP 23

Kick-off of the 23rd edition of the Conference of the Parties What was in stake in the previous editions?

Sustainability Newsletter 2017-02 Law of September 3rd 2017 related to non-financial information

Law of September, 3rd 2017 Belgium has translated the European Directive related to the publication of non-financial information and diversity information for some large entities in the law of September, 3rd 2017. This law amends article 96 of the company code concerning the management report content.

Sustainability Newsletter 2016-03 New GRI standards

What is the new structure ? What are the differences between G4 and GRI standards ? How to use/reference the standards?   Read more :

Sustainability Newsletter 2016-01 Non Financial reporting

European Directive 2014/95/EU regarding the disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large underakings or groups