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ESG considerations are increasingly recognised as interrelated business issues, critical to long-term shareholder value and business resilience, which require to be put at the head of the safety of an organisation and monitored at board level.

ESG Exchange CEE is a series of short videocasts with CMS experts and guests addressing challenges and trends relevant to CEE businesses, as the region’s focus on ESG reporting increases following EU taxonomy coming into effect in January 2022.

Episode #3: ESG in Finance

In our third episode, Agnieszka Skorupińska (CEE/Poland), Ana Radnev (CEE/Romania), Eszter Török (Hungary) and Marciń Krzemien (Poland) discuss ESG considerations and recent regulatory developments in the finance sector, including:

  • ESG from a finance transactional perspective and the main types of sustainable loans
  • Market education on ESG topics
  • Moving from voluntary to mandatory compliance, key existing and upcoming ESG related legislation
  • Financial market’s response to greenwashing
  • The rise of new ‘’green’’ products and opportunities across CEE

Episode #3: ESG in Finance

Authors

Ana Radnev
Ana Radnev
Partner
Head of Finance
Bucharest
Eszter Török
Eszter Török
Senior Counsel
Budapest
Marcin Krzemien,
Marcin Krzemien
Associate
Warsaw

Episode #2: How ESG affects Supply Chains

In our second episode, Agnieszka Skorupińska (CEE/Poland), Veronika Kovács (Hungary), Laura Grigore (Romania) and Martin Wodraschke (CEE/Hungary) explore why ESG really matters to supply chains, focusing on some important questions, like:

  • Do the regulations take the supply chain into account?
  • What risks and consequences do companies face if their suppliers are not ESG compliant?
  • How does a company's environmental footprint compare to the footprint of its suppliers?
  • How are Western European companies looking at environmental matters in the supply chain?
  • What is GRI and why is it important?

Episode #2 - How ESG affects Supply Chains

Episode Authors

Veronika Kovács
Veronika Kovács
Senior Counsel
Co-ordinator of the CEE Public Procurement Practice, CMNO
Budapest
Laura Grigore
Laura Grigore
Senior Counsel
Bucharest
Martin Wodraschke
Martin Wodraschke
Partner
CEE German Practice, Head of CMS Automotive Group
Budapest

Episode #1: Introduction to ESG & Taxonomy

In our first episode, Agnieszka Skorupinska (CEE/Poland), Rachel Lowe (United Kingdom) and Diana Rotaru (Romania) explore initial considerations in the ESG (environmental, social and governance) space and jointly discuss some of the topical issues.

They answer these important questions: 

  • What is ESG and taxonomy?
  • What does taxonomy reporting, which came into force in January this year, mean for CEE?
  • What are the remaining reporting obligations and what further developments are expected in the EU?
  • How are companies adapting to these reporting trends in general and particularly in the CEE region?

Episode #1: Introduction to ESG & Taxonomy

Episode Authors

Diana Rotaru
Diana Dona
Associate
Bucharest
Rachel Lowe

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