The European Commission has published a draft version of a Delegated Act to supplement article 8 in the Taxonomy Regulation (EU) 2020/852. This supplementation specifies the content and presentation of the information concerning environmentally sustainable economic activities and specifies the methodology to comply with that disclosure obligation. EU strives to channel capital towards sustainable investment …
Five Steps to Comply with the Taxonomy Regulation
DOWNLOAD OUR COMPREHENSIVE AND CONCISE WHITEPAPER TO LEARN THE FIVE STEPS NEEDED TO COMPLY WITH EU’S TAXONOMY REGULATION HERE! Through the European Green Deal, EU aims to improve the well-being and health of citizens, make Europe climate-neutral by 2050, and protect, conserve, and enhance EU’s natural capital and biodiversity. Reaching these goals require a financial …
Potential changes to REACH and CLP-regulations – Provide your feedback!
The European Commission has published two of its Inception Impact Assessments on potential changes to the REACH and CLP-regulations within the scope of the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability. You can find these Inception Impact Assessments and provide your feedback on them by the first of June 2021 by following the links below. Have your …
Ecobio’s key take-home messages from the Helsinki Chemicals Forum 2021
This year’s Helsinki Chemicals Forum (HCF) took place virtually on the 27th and 28th of April. Ecobio also joined the Forum as probably many of you too. In this brief blog we would like to share with you what we got out of the lively discussions during the two days. In these take-home messages, we …
What is the United Nations Global Compact?
The UN Global Compact is an initiative in which companies commit to ten principles regarding human rights, labour standards, environment, and the fight against corruption. The UN Global Compact was launched in 2001 and the initiative has since been joined by more than 12,700 companies and 3 000 other organisations totally from 160 different countries. …
ECHA has opened a public consultation over eight potential substances of very high concern
ECHA has released proposals to identify eight chemical substances as Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC). Substances that may have serious and often irreversible effects on human health and the environment can be identified as SVHCs. If a substance is identified as an SVHC, it will be added to the Candidate List of REACH for …
ECHA extends the scope of completeness check to include chemical safety reports
The Technical Completeness Check (TCC) done by ECHA for each REACH registration dossier now includes manual checks on the content of chemical safety reports. The extended completeness check will apply to both new registrations and updates of existing ones. Implementation of the revised completeness check was originally planned for November 2020 but was postponed until …
Two new substances added to the SVHC Candidate List
ECHA added the substances to the SHVC – Candidate List in January 2021 ECHA has added two new substances to the Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHC) due to their toxicity to reproduction. This means that the Candidate List now includes 211 substances. Any supplier of mixtures or articles containing a Candidate …
New in Sustainable Finance
Sustainability runs capital. During the last 10 years the capital in sustainable indexes has doubled. During the last year sustainability indexes that concentrate on environmental (E), social (S) and governance (G) have had higher returns than their non-sustainable competitors both on the European and North American market. As there are several indexes it can be …
We are looking for a EHS-specialist to join our consultancy team
Do you specialize within occupational health and safety? Do you want to work with sustainability in a team of experts? Do you handle even the most demanding parts of occupational health service-, occupational safety- and environmental legislation and the company specific requirements? We are looking for an expert within occupational health service, occupational safety and …