Our previous Hungarian research, on which the V4GreenReporting project is based, was published in Quality & Quantity in April 2024.
The main issue of the study is the compliance with environmental requirements in the Hungarian food processing industry. The new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires a wider range of companies to produce sustainability reports, and their content is influenced by the EU taxonomy regulation, which sets the framework for sustainable financing. The main question is how companies will be able to comply with the legislation in theory and in practice. Keeping pace with future environmental sustainability requirements is essential for the competitiveness of Hungary’s food industry, and we have therefore examined the environmental reporting practices of the sector’s largest companies against the objectives set out in the taxonomy regulation. The research fits well with the EU’s overall green transition regulatory process and our study is a gap-filling one at macro-regional and sectoral level. The study, a collaboration between the AKI and Széchenyi University, is the base of the V4Green Reporting AKI Project. The content analysis, scoring methodology of the research is currently being used to analyse the sustainability reporting practices of leading food companies in the V4 countries.
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