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Sustainability Disclosure Requirements: Implementation Update 2024

The UK’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) framework builds on global best practice and leading standards, supporting the UK’s ambition to become the world’s first Net Zero Aligned Financial Centre.

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Sustainability Disclosure Requirements: Implementation Update 2024

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Today’s publication of the government’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR): Implementation Update 2024 document delivers on one of the Government’s key commitments, as set out in the 2023 Green Finance Strategy, to provide industry with clear information, timeframes, and milestones for each of the core elements of SDR.

Building on global best practice and leading standards, SDR is a framework to facilitate and streamline the flow of robust, decision useful information between corporates, consumers and investors and capital markets.

This document provides stakeholders with a concise summary of how SDR fits together across the financial services sector, wider economy, and when they can expect to engage with proposals.

Published 16 May 2024