Responses to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards

Accountability Counsel’s Gregory Berry outlines the responses, concerns, and flaws of the newly announced European Sustainability Reporting Standards.

Gregory Berry is an environmental justice and human rights advocate in the arena of international development at the Accountability Counsel. Prior to this, he spent several years in outdoor education and therapy, during which time he witnessed the transformative power of time spent in nature and in the service of others.

At Accountability Counsel, he has advanced policies that allow communities impacted by internationally financed projects to connect directly with financiers to resolve actual and potential environmental and social harm.

Gregory, can you share a little about how you support a better environmental future?
The same systems and institutional cultures that have enabled threat cannot also be the solution to them; that’s why it is important to have laws that set the environmental and social boundaries of investment and business activities.

That is the only way to make any meaningful progress toward a sustainable future – that is to say, economies built upon healthy relationships with each other and the environment, and not economies that strain or drain those relationships.

Read the full interview in Sustainability Magazine here.