Sustainability Communications

• Stratcore offers accessibility and a personalised service. We are here when you need us, and that includes outside office hours.
• Stratcore is a full-service agency, providing one and the same partner for the entire translation process as well as your other language and communication requirements.
• Stratcore’s project management options:
• You are assigned a personal project manager (themselves language experts) who will be your point of contact throughout the entire process.
• Or if more appropriate to your needs, we will employ the latest project management CMS solutions with AI modules that help assist you with your projects using an easy to follow project interface.
• Flexibility – Stratcore offers translation services tailored precisely to your needs.
• Fast and simple – our skilled project managers (themselves language experts) will be your point of contact throughout the entire process.
• Total confidentiality at all stages for our clients, both internally and externally is guaranteed. Your sensitive documents are in safe hands throughout the entire process.
• Professional, high-quality translations – your texts deserve excellence.

A quality-assured translation process.

When you need to translate an important company document, such as an annual or a sustainability report or a company magazine, into one or more languages, we will ensure that you receive a product of the highest quality.

We will appoint a dedicated project manager with great experience of managing assignments both large and small. The project manager will then choose a translator or team of translators with the right expertise for your specific texts and documents.

We would be grateful if you could provide any reference materials, glossaries, translation memories from previous translations or style rules that have been used. This guarantees that we will be able to retain the terminology and style used within your company.

During the translation process itself, it is possible that our translators may have specific queries about the submitted text. These queries may be about terminology or may be requests for clarification of aspects of the text, or relate to special titles used within your company or organisation.

Once the document has been translated, it is passed over to one of our proofreaders. Our proofreaders, too, are chosen because of their expertise and background so that the proofreading process will ensure that the target text is of the highest quality.

If you have ordered assistance with DTP (desktop publishing) the text is then sent to our technical department, where they will ensure that the document is ready for printing.

Once completed to your specifications we deliver the document to you for final approval.

Sustainability reporting has been an important part of companies’ annual reports for many years, and the requirements just keep growing. Today, we’re seeing more detailed and far-reaching regulations than ever before.

The journey actually began decades ago. Many long-established companies were already reporting sustainability information when the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) was introduced back in 1997. Two decades later, the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) came into force, requiring large EU companies to include non-financial information—such as environmental, social, and employee-related topics, as well as anti-corruption, human rights, and diversity—within their annual reports.

In July 2020, the EU Taxonomy arrived and quickly became a cornerstone of the EU’s sustainable finance framework. It requires companies to disclose which of their economic activities are eligible for sustainability criteria and which are aligned with them. Businesses must report how their activities relate to the EU Taxonomy’s six environmental objectives, including climate change mitigation and adaptation.

By 2021, it was clear that the NFRD needed an update. The EU proposed a more comprehensive approach that expanded the scope of reporting to cover companies’ full value chains—both upstream and downstream. This proposal became the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which took effect in January 2023. EFRAG (the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group) was then tasked with developing the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), which were adopted later that year.The ESRS were created to ensure that companies’ ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) disclosures are consistent, transparent and easy to compare. There are 12 standards in total—two cross-cutting and ten topic-specific—and they apply to all companies covered by the CSRD. Currently, this includes large companies meeting two of the following criteria: more than 250 employees, net revenue above EUR 50 million, and total assets above EUR 25 million. Listed small and medium-sized enterprises will also begin reporting in 2026 for the 2025 financial year.

It’s natural for companies to wonder whether frameworks like the EU Taxonomy might conflict with the ESRS. Fortunately, they don’t. The ESRS are aligned with major global standards, including the GRI, and Taxonomy reporting is simply one part of the sustainability disclosures required under the CSRD. Together, the ESRS and EU Taxonomy actually improve transparency, making it easier for investors and stakeholders to understand a company’s environmental and social impact.

When it comes to sustainability report translations, we know that navigating sustainability requirements can feel overwhelming—especially with new reporting obligations emerging all the time. But with Stratcore, you’re in safe hands. We stay fully up-to-date with the latest developments, and our translators work with all current standards and directives. As a final quality step, your translated sustainability report will be reviewed by a specialist in sustainability terminology, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and consistency.