Sustainability & ESG Tracking for SMBs

The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law

Hacker News · StopDisinfo910 · Posted December 5, 2025 · Reviewed September 1, 2026

“When the reporting became mandatory, most of the documents required to decide if your activity was concerned were yet to be published. Application documents were inexistent. The commission had refused to coordinate with national accounting bodies to ensure things would be simple to interpret and the result was a monster.”

He led the taskforce that put the first Green Taxonomy reporting in place at a construction company, which makes him the rarest witness this entry could draw: someone who has done the reporting rather than sold software for it. What he reports is that the tracking is not the hard part. The standard was unfinished when compliance became mandatory, and the data the report demands does not exist upstream — he describes being required to check every chemical any supplier might use against the limits of every country the company operates in, and asks how one obtains the composition of a third-rank Indonesian supplier's hand soap. No dashboard closes that gap, and Medium difficulty does not price it. Four reservations. He works at an international construction company, not the small or medium business the entry targets, so his burden is not theirs. He is arguing a counterpoint in a thread about US firms lobbying to weaken EU climate law, and his language takes that side hard. He says himself he is only fairly convinced that the CSDDD and the CSRD are as impractical as the Green Taxonomy he actually worked on. And his comment drew no replies at all, so nothing in the thread checks him; he names neither the company nor the year.