The sustainability rulebook, in one place.
The regulations, standards and frameworks that shape sustainability work — each with a plain-language summary and a link to the official source. Last reviewed 22 July 2026; always verify the instrument in force.
Deadlines that are shaping the work.
Five moments worth planning around. Dates and thresholds evolve — always confirm against the linked sources in the library below.
ASRS climate reporting
Group 1 reporting began for financial years from 1 January 2025; Group 2 begins from 1 July 2026, with Group 3 from 1 July 2027, subject to the statutory thresholds.
BRSR & BRSR Core
India's largest listed entities file BRSR. Current SEBI wording provides for assurance or assessment of BRSR Core and adjusts the value-chain framework.
Battery passports
The Battery Regulation requires passports for LMT batteries, EV batteries and industrial batteries over 2 kWh from the fixed application date.
ESPR delegated acts
The 2025–2030 working plan guides preparatory work. Actual product requirements apply only when the relevant delegated act takes effect.
Packaging & packaging waste
The PPWR establishes lifecycle requirements for packaging placed on the EU market. Some operational details still depend on later implementing and delegated acts.
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AASB S2 — Climate-related Disclosures
The Australian Sustainability Reporting Standard behind mandatory climate reporting: governance, strategy, risk management, metrics and targets, including Scope 1–3 emissions, phased by entity group.
ASIC — Sustainability reporting
The corporate regulator's home for Australia's sustainability reporting regime: who must report and when, relief and guidance, and Regulatory Guide 280 for preparers.
SEBI — BRSR Core framework
SEBI's March 2025 measures use “assurance or assessment” for BRSR Core, revise value-chain disclosure measures and add voluntary green-credit disclosure.
CPCB — EPR & battery waste rules
India's extended producer responsibility regimes — including the Battery Waste Management Rules — set registration, collection and recycled-content obligations for producers.
CSRD — Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
The EU reporting regime remains centred on double materiality and ESRS, but later reporting waves were postponed and the scope and standards are being simplified. Confirm current thresholds and national transposition.
ESRS — European Sustainability Reporting Standards
The detailed standards under CSRD, including ESRS E5. A simplified revision was adopted by the Commission on 3 July 2026 but was not yet in force pending Official Journal publication at this review date.
ESPR — Ecodesign for Sustainable Products
The framework for product-specific ecodesign and digital product passport requirements. The 2025–2030 working plan is indicative; delegated acts set each product's actual scope, fields and application dates.
PPWR — Regulation (EU) 2025/40
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation covers packaging across its lifecycle and generally applies from 12 August 2026. It introduces requirements around minimisation, recyclability, recycled content, reuse, labelling, conformity documentation and producer duties, with several technical details phased through later acts.
DPP registry — Regulation (EU) 2026/1778
The Commission adopted the implementation arrangements for the ESPR digital product passport registry on 16 July 2026. Product-level duties still depend on the relevant delegated act.
EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542
From 18 February 2027, each LMT battery, industrial battery over 2 kWh and EV battery placed on the market or put into service must have a battery passport.
CDP — climate, water & forests
The disclosure system used by investors and large buyers worldwide. Questionnaires are scored annually, and supply-chain requests make CDP a customer obligation, not just an investor one.
GHG Protocol — Corporate Standard
The accounting backbone of carbon reporting: organisational and operational boundaries and the Scope 1, 2 and 3 architecture nearly every framework builds upon.
GRI Standards
The most widely used voluntary sustainability reporting standards — a modular system of universal, sector and topic standards for impact-focused reporting.
IFRS S1 & S2 — the ISSB baseline
The global baseline for investor-focused sustainability and climate disclosure. Jurisdictions from Australia to India align their regimes to these standards.
ISO 14040 / 14044 — Life cycle assessment
The principles, framework and requirements for defensible LCA — goal and scope, inventory, impact assessment and interpretation. The method behind credible product footprints.
ISO 14067 — Product carbon footprint
Requirements and guidelines for quantifying the carbon footprint of a product — the standard customers increasingly cite when they ask suppliers for PCFs.
ISO 59020 — Measuring circularity
The circular-economy standard for measuring and assessing circularity performance — the reference point for turning "we recycle" into a defensible, comparable number.
Summaries are provided for orientation only and are not legal advice. Requirements, thresholds and dates change — always rely on the linked official source.
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