Alligo report sustainability inspired by ESRS for 2024
According to a new EU directive, listed companies must report sustainability information based on a common standard – the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). In Sweden, the requirements apply to companies publishing their reports from June 2025. Alligo, however, published its Sustainability Report for 2024 in April and has chosen to follow the standard already now.
ESRS stands for European Sustainability Reporting Standards and is part of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The purpose of the directive and the standards is to create unified and transparent sustainability reporting for all large companies within the EU. The goal is to make sustainability disclosures more comparable and reliable, thereby helping investors make informed decisions.
– In the past, sustainability reporting frameworks and structures varied widely, making it hard to compare one company to another. Everyone more or less chose how and what to report. A major benefit of the new framework is increased transparency. There’s less fluff and more structure,” says Susanna Fink, Head of Sustainability and Quality at Alligo.
Alligo has reported for several years using the GRI framework – a globally recognized sustainability reporting standard. The transition to ESRS has been extensive. As part of the process, a double materiality assessment was conducted.
This includes evaluating how Alligo’s operations and value chain affect people and the environment, and how different sustainability issues in turn impact Alligo financially.
– We chose to do this already in 2024 because we wanted to prepare. We wanted a ‘dry run’ to identify any gaps before the 2025 reporting becomes mandatory,” says Susanna Fink.
Another reason Alligo has chosen to follow the ESRS framework early is that major customers are requesting the report as they themselves prepare for their own ESRS-aligned reporting, which will cover their entire value chain.
– Even though it has been a complex and at times frustrating process to align with the directive and standards, I’m really glad we did it. Now we have a clearer structure and more comparable data, which makes communication easier – both with customers and investors,” says Susanna Fink.
