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Pollution-related anticipated financial effects

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

A structured point estimate, complete range or qualitative disclosure of how a material pollution-related risk or opportunity may change financial position, performance or cash flows over a named horizon, retaining the pre-action basis, scenario, assumptions, currency and uncertainty.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting-date estimate by named future horizon and value state
Aggregation
Only compatible non-overlapping effects; never add range endpoints, scenarios or requirement bases
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Pollution systems, incidents and financial effects
Controlled domain
Sustainable finance
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Material pollution-related risks and opportunities across the applicable own-operations and value-chain perimeter. Binding E2 values are anticipated effects before pollution actions; current effects and adopted-pending strategy-basis estimates remain separate.

Verified source occurrences

Framework coverage

This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.

  • Adopting Disclosure

    European Sustainability Reporting Standards

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    European Commission
    Edition
    Consolidated text as of 1 January 2025
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    Binding ESRS E2-6 and ESRS 2 SBM-3 under Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 with the in-force 2025 phase-in amendment
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting-date estimate by named future horizon and value state

Unit meaning: This metric is reported as a structured table; each field carries the unit stated in the table fields below.

Table fields and units

  • Pollution risk or opportunity, perimeter and financial channel
  • Value state (point, complete range, qualitative-only, omitted, not assessed or inapplicable)
  • Signed point estimate ([ISO 4217 currency] at stated scale; negative deterioration, positive improvement)
  • Signed range low ([ISO 4217 currency] at stated scale; lower endpoint)
  • Signed range high ([ISO 4217 currency] at stated scale; upper endpoint)
  • Horizon, scenario, valuation date, assumptions, uncertainty and phase-in state

Published dimensions

  • Pollution financial channel, horizon, value state, scenario and valuation basis

Disclosure method

Formula information

Status
Not applicable
Formula type
Structured Disclosure

Disclosure form

No single formula

Populate the structured fields from qualifying source observations and retain each field-level unit, boundary, status, and method; do not collapse the disclosure into one calculated value.

Verified sources

Evidence and status sources

Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.

Measurement evidence

  • Measurement evidenceChecked 15 August 2026

    Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 supplementing Directive 2013/34/EU as regards sustainability reporting standards

    Publisher
    European Commission
    Edition
    Consolidated text as of 1 January 2025
    Locator
    Binding ESRS E2-6 and ESRS 2 SBM-3 under Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 with the in-force 2025 phase-in amendment

    Supports: Official publisher reference linked specifically to the Sustopedia metric “Pollution-related anticipated financial effects”; interpret it with the source-edition basis and limitations shown on this page.

    Open official source

Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: Binding ESRS E2-6 and ESRS 2 SBM-3 under Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 with the in-force 2025 phase-in amendment; the July 2026 adopted text is compatibility-only until Official Journal publication.

  • Name the governing standard, edition and binding or adopted-pending requirement basis.
  • Name the pollution risk or opportunity, impact or dependency, source, geography and value-chain perimeter.
  • Name the financial channel, affected line item, horizon and dated horizon definition.
  • Use exactly one value state: signed point, complete signed range, qualitative-only, omitted, not assessed or inapplicable.
  • State ISO 4217 currency, scale, sign convention, valuation date, scenario, probability and discounting treatment.
  • State estimation method, assumptions, source, uncertainty and phase-in or relief state.
  • Keep current and anticipated effects, alternative scenarios, range endpoints and requirement bases non-additive.

Record-specific limitations

  • Values are sensitive to entity assumptions, scenario, horizon, probability treatment, valuation date and estimation method.
  • A reported effect is not necessarily a recognized asset, liability, income, expense, provision, expected loss or value-at-risk result.
  • Point estimates and ranges can conceal distribution shape, while overlapping pollution drivers can double count one financial channel.

Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.

Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.