| 11/7/2025 | The Directive on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) empowers the Commission to adopt delegated and implementing acts to specify how competent authorities and market participants shall comply with the obligations laid down in the directive. |  |
| 25/06/2025 | The International Financial Services Centres Authority has issued a framework that will enable companies that face difficulty in reducing carbon emissions to raise funds at Gift City through Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)-linked bonds. | |
| 16/06/2025 | ISSB sustainability standards to be adopted in 36 jurisdictions | |
| 25-Apr | SBTi launches the Financial Institutions Net-Zero Standard | |
| 25-Apr | The Carbon Data Open Protocol (CDOP) is a cross industry, multi-stakeholder collaboration designed to standardize data describing carbon crediting projects and carbon credits across markets, geographies, and activity types. | |
| 25-Apr | Member States at UN Headquarters endorsed the finalized outcome document, known as the Compromiso de Sevilla (the Seville Commitment) | |
| Jan/March 2025 | ISSB issues inaugural global sustainability disclosure standards to enter into force as of 1/1/2024 | |
| 23/01/2025 | The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures released a second tranche of sector guidance to support the assessment, management and disclosure of nature-related issues by companies globally, in 4 categories: 1. Apparel, textiles & footwear, 2. Beverages, 3. Construction materials, 4. Engineering, construction & real estate | |
| 27/11/2024 | Regulation (EU) 2024/3005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2024 on the transparency and integrity of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating activities | |
| 25/07/2024 | Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence (Directive 2024/1760) aim is to foster sustainable and responsible corporate behaviour in companies’ operations and across their global value chains. The new rules will ensure that companies in scope identify and address adverse human rights and environmental impacts of their actions inside and outside Europe. | |
| 13/06/2024 | Directive (EU) 2024/1760 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 on corporate sustainability due diligence | |
| 12/12/2024 | Law 5164/2024 (G.G. 102/12.12.2024) Transposition of Directive (EU) 2022/2464 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022, as regards sustainability reporting by companies (L 322) | |
| 13/11/2023 | Council adopts Farm Sustainability Data Network regulation | |
| 1/10/2023 | Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is the EU's tool to put a fair price on carbon emitted during the production of carbon-intensive goods that are entering the EU, and to encourage cleaner industrial production in non-EU countries. | |
| 31/07/2023 | Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 sets outs the European sustainability reporting standards (ESRS) | |
| 9/6/2023 | In the EU, consultation on ESRS standards under the CSRD has been completed, with implementation from 1 January 2024 and publication of first reports in 2025. | |
| 31/05/2023 | Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2023 on the making available on the Union market and the export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation | |
| 22/03/2023 | 'Green claims' directive: Protecting consumers from greenwashing | |
| 14/12/2022 | Directive (EU) 2022/2464 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022 as regards corporate sustainability reporting | |
| 18/06/2020 | Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2020 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment, and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 | |
| 27/11/2019 | Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on sustainability - related disclosures in the financial services sector | |
| 23/05/2016 | The Greek Sustainability Code | |
| 09 January 2015 | GRI launches the Reporting 2025 project aimed at promoting an international discussion about the future of sustainability reporting and disclosures. | |
| 2013 - 2015 | two European business campaigns CSR Europe has prioritised two European business campaigns - Skills for Jobs and Sustainable Living in Cities - as well as number of collaborative projects and sector initiatives which aim to improve corporate management performance. | |
| 07/11/2014 | GRI to issue Sustainability Reporting Standards developed and approved by the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB). | |
| 20-22 June 2012 | Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development | |
| 2010 - 2015 | 2010 saw the launch of Enterprise 2020, an ambitious initiative to shape the business contribution to the EU's Europe 2020 Strategy. Enterprise 2020 is CSR Europe's flagship initiative, encompassing all its campaigns in the coming years, which was the only business-led initiative to be taken on by the European Commission in its European Strategy on CSR. At the end of the Enterprise 2020 Summit 2012, business leaders together with José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, and Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, called for closer collaboration on growth and jobs. |
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| October 3, 2011 | New European strategy | |
| June 2011 | CSR Europe outlines new strategy, leadership and action plan | |
| September 2010 | Enterprise 2020 In the context of the EU's Europe 2020 strategy, Enterprise 2020 highlights the contribution that businesses can make to achieve the EU goals for building a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy delivering high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion by 2020. | |
| February 2009 | February 2010 : European Toolbox Road Show. This RoadShow aims to disseminate the tools developed by the CSR Laboratories and equip companies and stakeholders with relevant, useful and practical CSR tools. | |
| 2006 | Second European Commission Communication on CSR and the European Alliance for CSR. The European Commission renews its policy on CSR through a communication entitled "Implementing the partnership for growth and jobs: making Europe a pole of excellence on corporate social responsibility on CSR" to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee. | |
| June 2002 | First European Commission Communication on CSR | |
| July 2000 | UN GLOBAL COMPACT. The United Nations Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. | |
| March 2000 | The Lisbon Summit Conclusions encourage voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility action by businesses.15 Heads of State and Governments make an appeal on the business case for responsibility, placing CSR at the heart of the Lisbon Strategy 2010: "To make Europe the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion by 2010." 1999 – OECD Principles of Corporate Governance. First released in May 1999 and revised in 2004, the OECD Principles are one of the 12 key standards for international financial stability of the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) and form the basis for the corporate governance component of the Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes of the World Bank Group. | |
| 1998 | Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions .These amount to an average of five per cent against 1990 levels over the five-year period 2008-2012. The major distinction between the Protocol and the Convention is that while the Convention encouraged industrialised countries to stabilize GHG emissions, the Protocol commits them to do so. Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities". | |
| January 1995 | European Commission President Jacques Delors followed by 20 business leaders adopt and announce the European Business Declaration against Social Exclusion. Signatories call for the development of a European network for the exchange of information and experience. June 1993 - Former Commission President Jacques Delors makes an appeal to businesses to contribute to public authorities' efforts in combating unemployment and social exclusion. He invites enterprises to adopt a European Declaration against Social Exclusion. 1992 – World Business Council for Sustainable Development. The WBCSD was founded on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to involve business in sustainability issues and give it a voice in the forum. | |
| June 1992 | UN Conference on Environment and Development - The Earth Summit. The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro was unprecedented for a UN conference, in terms of both its size and the scope of its concerns. Twenty years after the first global environment conference, the UN sought to help Governments rethink economic development and find ways to halt the destruction of irreplaceable natural resources and pollution of the planet. Hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life were drawn into the Rio process. They persuaded their leaders to go to Rio and join other nations in making the difficult decisions needed to ensure a healthy planet for generations to come. | |
