Competitive advantage through CSRD or just a bureaucratic monster?
Competitive advantage through CSRD: how companies turn the new sustainability reporting rules into real business value instead of pure bureaucracy.
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Green Controlling: What Role Controllers Play for the CSRD
Green Controlling combines sustainability and management. Learn how controlling and ESG teams jointly implement CSRD requirements.
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ESRS Topic Structure: these are the Planned Changes
Overview of the new ESRS topic structure: Planned changes for 2025, impact on companies, and relevance for sustainability reports.
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Finding ESG Jobs: the Best Portals & Application Tips
Use the summer to reorient & find meaningful ESG jobs. Discover job portals and application tips for your sustainable career.
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Materiality Assessment 2024: Everyone's doing it – but how well?
How companies implement Materiality Assessment in their 2024 CSRD reports – and where there is still room for improvement.
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Sustainability topics 2024: What companies really report on
Which sustainability topics will dominate the first CSRD reports in 2024 - and which will be left out? We provide insights and trends.
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CSRD Reports 2024: What we can learn from them
The first CSRD reports 2024 are here! We have compiled the most interesting findings from the latest studies here.
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Materiality Assessment Light: Streamlined entry into CSRD reporting
The Materiality Assessment Light provides a pragmatic and efficient introduction to (voluntary) sustainability reporting.
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double materiality in the VSME: Strategic instead of mandatory
double materiality is no longer mandatory in the VSME - but remains useful. If you want to report strategically, you should use it.
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Is ESG still necessary? Why ESG managers shouldn't worry
ESG managers fear for their jobs! Learn why sustainability remains relevant and how you can future-proof your career.
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VSME Sustainability Report: Mapping the material ESRS topics
The VSME sustainability report makes ESG reporting easier for SMEs. Find out more about the structured mapping of ESRS standards.
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Efficient CSRD implementation: how to save time and money
Find out how you can achieve efficient CSRD implementation with the right tools and methods. Save time and money!
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ESRS data point mapping: 7 essential tips & insights
Learn how to make ESRS data point mapping efficient and optimize your CSRD reporting with these 7 tips.
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Understanding and using IROs: The key to materiality assessment (CSRD)
Find out how companies can identify and assess IROs (Impacts, Risks & Opportunities) in accordance with CSRD.
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Materiality Assessment Benchmark: Insights from the field
The results of the materiality assessment benchmark studies provide exciting insights for your own CSRD reporting.
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Materiality Assessment: Excel vs. software?
Find out whether you should use Excel or specialized software to carry out the double materiality assessment.
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materiality assessment Guideline: Amendments to EFRAG
Learn about the key changes to EFRAG's materiality assessment guidance (IG1) and create a compliant CSRD report.
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CSRD materiality assessment: Strategic tool for companies
CSRD materiality assessment is a strategic tool that helps companies to manage risks, exploit opportunities and create value
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CSRD reporting: materiality assessment and then?
A step-by-step guide to CSRD reporting: what happens after the materiality analysis and how ESG software helps you structure each step efficiently.
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Materiality analysis example for filling in the Excel template
This materiality analysis example serves as a filling aid for the materiality analysis Excel template from CSR Tools
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The 12 Best Materiality Assessment AI Prompts
Discover how AI prompts can speed up your double materiality assessment – with 12 ready-to-use prompts to make sustainability reporting easier.
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How to Create a CSRD-compliant Materiality Assessment in 4 Steps
Discover in our guide what the 4 steps of a Materiality Assessment are and how you can implement them, with a practical example.
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Double Materiality – Double Materiality Simply Explained!
Discover what Double Materiality means, why it is relevant for companies, and what a materiality matrix is.
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Materiality
The „Materiality” category contains all content related to dual materiality. Materiality, and more specifically the materiality analysis and the materiality matrix, is an important aspect of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Reporting Standards (ESRS).