Are you ready to measure and manage your individual climate risks and opportunities? Do your findings impact your strategic and financial planning? Seize the opportunity to learn from use cases (Zurich Insurance & Georg Fischer) and discuss with your peers how to set up solid processes and how to best benefit from the new regulation requirements.

The third CCR Roundtable in 2024 will be held on October 24 for corporate members only. More information will follow in due course.

The choice of an appropriate ESG Data Management Tool is an important element that companies have to decide about when responding to the ever increasing reporting expectations by the regulator, the capital market, and other stakeholders. How can companies make sense of this increasingly crowded space of vendors? At our CCR Roundtable our members got an overview as well as hands-on experience in terms of learnings and “Dos and Don’ts “.

The bar with regards to the quality of sustainability reporting is rising due to investor requests and regulatory requirements in Switzerland, the EU, and globally. External assurance is an important element of good practice for ensuring the quality and integrity of the sustainability/ESG data. Whereas in Switzerland, external assurance remains voluntary, the CSRD will make external assurance mandatory in the EU and thereby also for many Swiss companies. In this CCR roundtable you get the opportunity to learn about external assurance.

Driven by a multitude of regulatory ESG reporting requirements all across different jurisdictions, often times underpinned by corresponding standardization, the ESG reporting is running the risk of being reduced to a compliance exercise. In our next CCR Roundtable we would like to focus on the opportunity dimension.

The purpose of a business is pivotal as it has never been before. It is the intention and aspiration why a specific business exists and how it plans to create value for its shareholders and other stakeholders. In this Roundtable you will get first hand insight from specific company case studies sharing their journey from defining and creating consensus about their purpose, to how that purpose informs governance, strategies and operations, to the way they deliver evidence through their reporting and disclosure about their outcome and impact.

The landscape of sustainability/ESG reporting standards and frameworks is evolving rapidly, new players are entering this space and existing organizations collaborate or merge. At the same time, regulators are preparing their own technical specifications, adding additional complexity.

This CCR Roundtable will be held digitally for corporate members only. It will be based on their topics and questions.

Keep up with the latest regulatory developments in both Switzerland and the EU. Many companies will face increased ESG reporting as well as due diligence requirements. The details are not defined yet, but companies need to start preparing today. The CCR Roundtable provided insights in the forthcoming regulation and allow deep-dive discussions based on case studies with corporates who have already taken action.

A member of the EFRAG Project Task Force on “Reporting of Non-Financial Risks and Opportunities and linkage to the business model (PTF-RNFRO)” provided insights into its current work and timing. Additionally, EY gave a wider perspective on the NFRD and related developments in Europe and Switzerland (such as the Responsible Business Initiative). The presentation of best-practice cases allowed an in-depth discussion of the topic.

This CCR Roundtable was held digitally, for corporate members only, and was based on their topics and questions regarding ESG and digitalization as well as recurring topics of interest.

Lip service to ESG principles and respective non-financial KPIs is no longer sufficient. Companies need to have a clear understanding of their role in society and therefore are required to communicate actively their non-financial targets, how they are reflected in their strategy, in their risk and opportunity assessment and finally in their decision-making processes and finally in their incentive structures.

Keynote speakers: Esther Bares, Philip Morris International / Iris Müller, BKW

The CCR Roundtable provides attendees with the opportunity to hear from two leading financial services businesses how they look at non-financials, what they mean for the daily decision-making, and what they expect from their potential investees.

The internal CCR Roundtable was reserved for members only. Experiences and challenges from the last reporting cycle as well as open questions for the coming reporting cycle were shared and discussed.

Keynote speakers: Dr. Michael Fürst and Denise Weger, Novartis / Justin D’Atri, Zurich Insurance / Becky Pearce, Unilever / Jyoti Banerjee, Fronesys and IIRC