Sustainability and ESG regulatory intelligence

Foresight monitors ecodesign, packaging and EPR rules, CBAM, the CSRD and the CSDDD in your markets, and flags which of your products each change affects.

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Portfolio impact assessment

  • EUImpact: Affected
  • EUImpact: Not affected
  • EUImpact: Not affected

Take “Climate neutral” off its tube and product page

Claim
Climate neutral
Sold to
Consumers in the EU
Banned
Since 27 September 2026
Directive (EU) 2024/825 EUR-Lex (opens the source in a new tab)

ProjectsPortfolio impact assessment

  • Hannah Okafor
  • Priya Nair
  • Femi Adebayo
Tarnwick’s products, each checked against the Empowering Consumers Directive’s ban on climate neutral claims based on offsetting, which EU countries apply from 27 September 2026. Choose a row to see its evidence.
ProductMarketClaimImpact
EUClimate neutralAffected
EU30% recycledNot affected
EUNoneNot affected
GBSolvent-freeNot affected
GBLow VOCNot affected

Silicone sealant

Impact: Affected

Take “Climate neutral” off its tube and product page

Claim
Climate neutral
Sold to
Consumers in the EU
Banned
Since 27 September 2026
Directive (EU) 2024/825 EUR-Lex (opens the source in a new tab)

The Empowering Consumers Directive bans claims that a product is climate neutral through offsetting, as EU countries apply it from 27 September 2026. Tarnwick is fictional. Choose any product to see the evidence.

What Foresight watches in sustainability and ESG

The laws, schemes and agreements behind sustainability and ESG compliance, grouped by what each asks of your products, emissions, reporting and suppliers.

  • Products and packaging

    • ESPR

      Ecodesign requirements for each product group

    • Digital Product Passport

      The product data ecodesign rules call for

    • PPWR

      Recyclability, recycled content and labelling

    • Single-Use Plastics Directive

      Bans, marking and collection targets for single-use plastics

    • Circular Economy Act

      The planned EU law on secondary raw materials and circular products

    • Batteries Regulation

      Recycled content, due diligence and battery passports

    • Construction Products Regulation

      Environmental data in product declarations

    • Right to repair

      Repair duties and spare parts

  • Waste and recycling

    • Extended producer responsibility

      Registration, fees and reporting in each market

    • Waste Framework Directive

      Including producer responsibility for textiles, added in 2025

    • WEEE

      Take-back of electrical equipment

    • Plastic Pellets Regulation

      Preventing pellet losses along the supply chain

    • End-of-life vehicles

      Substance limits, recycling targets and producer responsibility

    • California’s SB 54

      Producer responsibility and source reduction for plastic packaging

    • Switzerland’s Packaging Ordinance

      Packaging rules, replacing those for drinks containers

    • Basel Convention

      Shipments of plastic and electronic waste

  • Carbon pricing

    • EU Emissions Trading System

      Allowances and free allocation

    • UK Emissions Trading Scheme

      Allowances for power, industry and aviation

    • China’s national ETS

      Power, extending to steel, cement and aluminium

    • Korea’s K-ETS

      Allocation, trading and reporting of allowances

    • Japan’s GX

      Carbon pricing on the way to net zero

    • RGGI

      Allowances for power plants in north-eastern states

    • CBAM

      Steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity

    • UK CBAM

      Imports such as steel, aluminium, cement and fertilisers

  • Greenhouse gases and offsets

    • F-gases

      Quotas, phase-downs and product bans, in the EU and Great Britain

    • AIM Act

      The US phase-down of HFCs

    • Methane

      Reporting and reduction rules for energy, farming and waste

    • CORSIA

      Offsetting for international flights

    • Carbon markets

      Compliance and voluntary markets

  • Reporting and due diligence

    • CSRD

      Sustainability reporting and the ESRS

    • CSDDD

      Human rights and environmental due diligence

    • EU Taxonomy

      Which activities count as sustainable

    • Omnibus I

      Who reports under the CSRD and CSDDD, and when

    • VSME

      Voluntary reporting for smaller companies

    • Environment Omnibus

      Simpler reporting across EU environmental law

    • Energy Efficiency Directive

      Energy audits and management systems for large energy users

  • Disclosure frameworks

    • ISSB

      IFRS S1 and S2 sustainability and climate standards

    • UK Sustainability Disclosure Requirements

      Including the UK’s ISSB-based reporting standards

    • TCFD

      Climate-related financial disclosure

    • TNFD

      Nature-related risks, impacts and dependencies

    • Corporate ESG reporting

      Climate and governance disclosure in each market

  • Supply chains

    • EUDR

      Cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood

    • FLEGT

      Licences for legal timber, and the EU Timber Regulation

    • Critical Raw Materials Act

      Strategic raw materials and supply risk

    • UK Modern Slavery Act

      Statements on slavery and trafficking in supply chains

    • Critical minerals

      Sourcing, recycling and due diligence duties

    • Forced labour

      Including the EU’s ban on products made with it

    • Conflict minerals

      Tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold

  • Claims and labels

    • Green claims

      Including the EU’s ban on offset-based neutral claims

    • EU Ecolabel

      Criteria for each product group

    • Blue Angel

      Germany’s ecolabel, with chemical content criteria

    • Nordic Swan

      The Nordic ecolabel, across dozens of product groups

    • Energy labelling

      Energy classes and product registration

    • ISCC PLUS

      Certifying circular and bio-based content

    • Mass balance

      Attributing certified feedstock through mixed production

  • Global agreements

    • Paris Agreement

      National climate targets and their reviews

    • UN Plastics Treaty

      Negotiations on a binding treaty on plastic pollution

    • CITES

      Trade in endangered animals and plants

    • Nagoya Protocol

      Access to genetic resources and sharing their benefits

    • BBNJ Agreement

      Marine biodiversity on the high seas

See how Monitoring works

Projects for sustainability and ESG compliance

Foresight runs the work a change leaves behind, from a portfolio check to an EPR filing. Your expert approves each result.

Understand your exposure

All 7 projects

Meet an obligation

All 9 projects

Keep documents current

All 4 projects

Keep watch

All 3 projects

The sectors sustainability rules reach

Sustainability rules reach packaging, electronics, building materials and inhaler propellants alike. Each sector page opens on the changes Foresight is tracking for a typical company in it.

What is moving in sustainability and ESG

Foresight keeps a public page for 240 sustainability and ESG topics, each showing how active a framework, theme or substance is. These are the most active now.

All sustainability topicsAll ESG topics

What sustainability and ESG teams ask

What does Foresight watch in sustainability and ESG?

Product rules such as ESPR, the Digital Product Passport, the PPWR, the Single-Use Plastics Directive, the Batteries Regulation and right to repair, and the planned Circular Economy Act; producer responsibility and waste rules, from the Waste Framework Directive and WEEE to end-of-life vehicles and California’s SB 54; the EU, UK, Chinese and Korean emissions trading schemes, Japan’s GX, RGGI, CORSIA and the EU and UK CBAMs; F-gases, HFCs and methane; reporting and due diligence under the CSRD, the CSDDD and the EU Taxonomy, energy audits under the Energy Efficiency Directive, and the ISSB, TCFD and TNFD frameworks; sourcing rules on deforestation, timber, forced labour, modern slavery, conflict minerals and critical raw materials; the rules on green claims, ecolabels and recycled content certification; and the global agreements on climate, plastics, wildlife trade, genetic resources and the high seas.

How does Foresight know which changes matter to us?

You name the topics you track, such as packaging or CBAM, and the markets you sell into. Foresight scores each change against them and says why it was flagged, such as “You track the PPWR, and France is one of your markets.” A portfolio impact assessment goes further and checks a change against each of your products and its claims.

Where does the evidence come from?

From the official source: the official journal, the regulator’s register or the agency’s decision. Every alert and every project result links to the document it rests on, so your team can check the wording directly.

Does Foresight cover ESG reporting too?

Yes. Foresight follows the CSRD, the CSDDD, the EU Taxonomy and the VSME standard, and the changes the Omnibus I package made to which companies report and when. Beyond the EU, it follows the ISSB standards, the UK’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements, TCFD and TNFD. Each alert links to the text that changed, so your reporting team can check it.

Who signs off a project’s results?

The person you name at your organisation. In a project, nothing is final until they sign it off, and each result opens on the evidence behind it.

How do we start?

Book a demo and bring your products, packaging and markets. The Foresight team will show you what is changing for them. You see a project’s scope and price before it starts.

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