Platform on Sustainable Finance Advises on ESRS-EU Taxonomy Alignment
Summary
The European Commission's Platform on Sustainable Finance published technical advice on aligning European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) with the EU Taxonomy Regulation. The advisory body recommends joint EFRAG-Platform mapping to reduce reporting duplication, integration of taxonomy-aligned metrics into climate transition plans, and improved consistency across ESRS, SFDR, and Benchmark Regulation. The Commission plans to adopt a Delegated Act revising ESRS before summer 2026 based on this input.
What changed
The Platform on Sustainable Finance published advice responding to the Commission's consultation on amended ESRS. Key recommendations include a joint Platform-EFRAG mapping exercise to enable overlapping ESRS datapoints across environmental objectives and minimum safeguards to serve both ESRS and EU Taxonomy through a single reporting process. The Platform also advises stronger integration of taxonomy-aligned revenues, CapEx, and OpEx into ESRS climate transition plan disclosures, and improved consistency between ESRS, SFDR, and Benchmark Regulation.
Public companies subject to CSRD and investors should monitor these developments closely. The Commission's planned Delegated Act on revised ESRS before summer 2026 will incorporate this advice, potentially affecting how sustainability reporters demonstrate taxonomy alignment and incorporate transition planning. Financial advisers and asset managers using SFDR disclosures should also track ESRS-Taxonomy consistency improvements as these will affect data availability and comparability.
What to do next
- Monitor for revised ESRS Delegated Act expected before summer 2026
- Prepare for potential changes to taxonomy-aligned reporting requirements in ESRS disclosures
- Review transition plan templates once Platform publishes voluntary standard
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Publication date 18 March 2026 Author Platform on Sustainable Finance
Description
The Platform on Sustainable Finance, an advisory body to the European Commission, has been consulted by the European Commission on the technical advice provided by the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) regarding amended European sustainability reporting standards (ESRS).
In its response to the consultation, the Platform has carried out a usability assessment of the proposed ESRS and their integration within the wider EU sustainable finance framework, notably with the EU taxonomy. Key recommendations from that assessment include
- improving consistency and connectivity between ESRS and the Taxonomy Regulation through a mapping exercise, to be undertaken by the Platform and EFRAG jointly, as well as implementation guidance for practitioners. The objective is to reduce duplication by enabling overlapping ESRS datapoints – across environmental objectives and minimum safeguards – to be used for both frameworks through a single, integrated reporting and assurance process
- allowing for a stronger integration of EU taxonomy‑related information – such as taxonomy-aligned revenues, capital expenditure (CapEx), CapEx plans, and, where relevant, operating expenditure (OpEx) – into ESRS climate transition plan disclosures, as well as into other environmental or transition plan disclosures where applicable
- developing a voluntary standardised transition plan template for non‑financial undertakings as part of the ESRS reporting
- improving consistency between the ESRS, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the Benchmark Regulation, as well as the wider sustainable finance framework in terms of definitions, scope, and underlying methodologies As part of the Omnibus I package amending the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the Commission committed to adopt a Delegated Act to revise the first set of ESRS, which started to apply on 1 January 2024, based on the technical advice provided by EFRAG. The Commission plans to adopt its Delegated Act on the revised ESRS before the summer 2026, based on the advice provided by EFRAG on 3 December 2025 and taking into consideration the input of the Platform and the other relevant EU bodies.
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- 18 MARCH 2026 Platform on Sustainable Finance response to the Commission’s consultation on the European sustainability reporting standards (ESRS) English (1.06 MB - PDF) Download ## Related links
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