Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are becoming fully integrated into risk assessment processes and credit granting by financial institutions.

Measuring environmental impact transparently, quantifying emissions along the entire value chain, and communicating results in a credible way will become essential requirements to remain competitive in the markets.

In practical terms, for businesses this means: more structured requests for information on sustainable finance, increased attention to climate risks and the challenges of the ecological transition, and impacts on the opening of banking and insurance relationships as well as on financing and compensation conditions.

Finance, the economy, and the environment are becoming increasingly interconnected, as evidenced by the new guidelines of the EBA (European Banking Authority) and the European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which call on Italian companies to undertake a paradigm shift in sustainability reporting.

In this context, ISPRA plays a strategic role as a reference authority in key areas, with highly innovative systems and tools such as: the Italian Emissions Trading Registry (ETS), the emissions trading system that is crucial for industrial decarbonization; the platform for the sustainability of finance and businesses, developed also in collaboration with the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy; the IdroGEO platform and new technological tools for businesses that also make use of “AI.”