Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) CDP Policy Explainer

Before the introduction of mandatory regulations, there have been voluntary frameworks at the international level, focused on due diligence within companies' governance. While these frameworks have been crucial in helping companies familiarize themselves with corporate sustainability due diligence and have even served as a foundation for mandatory regulations, they have not been sufficient to fully integrate sustainability due diligence processes into company operations and have led to the need to standardize common practices for the private sector.