--- name: regulatory-sustainability-compliance-gap-analyzer description: "Maps a company's current ESG disclosures and practices against applicable sustainability regulations (CSRD, SEC climate rules, EU Taxonomy, TCFD, ISSB, and others), then delivers a structured gap analysis with materiality-scoped requirements, gap severity ratings, compliance priority rankings, and a phased remediation roadmap with owners and deadlines. Use when assessing readiness for a sustainability disclosure regime, preparing for a first-time CSRD or SEC climate filing, diagnosing where current ESG reporting falls short of legal obligations, or building a remediation plan to close compliance gaps before a reporting deadline." argument-hint: "[regulations] [company-profile]" allowed-tools: ["Read"] --- # Regulatory Sustainability Compliance Gap Analyzer ## Purpose Map a company's existing ESG disclosures, data, and governance practices against the specific requirements of the sustainability regulations that apply to it — then produce a prioritized gap analysis and a phased remediation roadmap that tells the CSO, GC, and Head of Compliance exactly what is missing, how serious each gap is, and what to fix first before the filing deadline. ## When to Use Invoke this skill when the user asks to: - Assess readiness for CSRD, SEC climate rules, EU Taxonomy, TCFD, or ISSB/IFRS S1–S2 reporting - Prepare for a first-time mandatory sustainability disclosure filing - Diagnose where current ESG reporting falls short of a specific regulation's requirements - Build a remediation plan to close compliance gaps before a reporting deadline - Determine which sustainability regulations apply given the company's geography, revenue, and structure - Prioritize limited compliance resources across multiple overlapping disclosure regimes ## Inputs Required Before starting, collect: - **Applicable or candidate regulations**: Which regimes to analyze against (CSRD, SEC climate, EU Taxonomy, TCFD, ISSB/IFRS S1–S2, California SB 253/261, etc.) - **Company profile**: Headquarters, jurisdictions of operation, annual revenue, employee count, listing status, and EU/US market presence — used to confirm which regulations legally apply - **Industry/sector**: Sector determines material topics and sector-specific standards - **Current ESG disclosures**: What is published today (annual report, sustainability report, CDP, GRI index, prior TCFD statement) and where - **Data and systems maturity**: What ESG data is currently collected, how (manual vs. system), and whether Scope 1/2/3 emissions are measured - **Governance structure**: Who owns ESG, board oversight arrangements, and whether assurance/audit is in place - **Reporting deadline**: First mandatory filing date or target internal deadline If applicability is uncertain, first run a scoping determination against thresholds and state the conclusion before proceeding. ## Instructions ### Step 1: Confirm Regulatory Applicability and Scope Before analyzing gaps, confirm which regulations legally bind this company. - **CSRD**: Applies to large EU companies and non-EU companies with significant EU turnover (€150M+ EU revenue) and an EU branch/subsidiary; determine wave/phase-in year and whether limited assurance is required - **SEC climate rules / California SB 253 & SB 261**: Determine based on US listing status, revenue thresholds ($1B for SB 253, $500M for SB 261), and doing-business-in-California status - **EU Taxonomy**: Applies to entities in CSRD scope; requires eligibility and alignment reporting for turnover, CapEx, and OpEx - **TCFD / ISSB (IFRS S1–S2)**: Determine mandatory vs. voluntary status by jurisdiction (UK, Japan, others mandating ISSB adoption) Output a short applicability table: Regulation | Applies? (Yes/No/Conditional) | First reporting year | Assurance requirement. ### Step 2: Build the Requirement Inventory For each applicable regulation, enumerate the concrete disclosure requirements grouped by pillar: - **Governance**: Board oversight, management role, ESG accountability structures - **Strategy**: Material impacts/risks/opportunities, scenario analysis, transition plan, resilience - **Risk management**: Identification, assessment, and integration of climate/ESG risks - **Metrics & targets**: Scope 1/2/3 emissions, targets, KPIs, Taxonomy KPIs, sector metrics - **Double materiality** (CSRD-specific): Impact materiality and financial materiality assessment For CSRD, map to the relevant ESRS datapoints (E1–E5, S1–S4, G1). Note which requirements are phase-in (e.g., Scope 3, value chain data) vs. immediately required. ### Step 3: Assess Current State Against Each Requirement For every requirement in the inventory, classify current status: - **Compliant**: Requirement fully met with disclosure-quality data - **Partial**: Some data or disclosure exists but incomplete, unassured, or below the required standard - **Missing**: No data, process, or disclosure exists - **Not applicable**: Requirement excluded via a defensible materiality determination (state the rationale) Cite the evidence for each rating from the company's current disclosures where provided. ### Step 4: Rate Gap Severity and Compliance Risk For each Partial or Missing gap, assign a severity rating: - **Critical**: Non-negotiable mandatory disclosure with no data foundation and hard deadline exposure — creates filing failure or legal liability - **High**: Mandatory requirement partially met but insufficient for assurance or audit sign-off - **Medium**: Required but phased-in, or achievable with existing data reorganization - **Low**: Voluntary, best-practice, or low-effort completion Factor in three dimensions: legal exposure (mandatory vs. voluntary), data build time (how long remediation realistically takes), and assurance risk (whether an auditor would flag it). ### Step 5: Rank Compliance Priorities Produce a ranked priority list combining severity, deadline proximity, and remediation lead time. Long-lead-time items (Scope 3 data collection, double materiality assessment, assurance readiness) rank higher even at equal severity because they cannot be completed at the last minute. ### Step 6: Build the Phased Remediation Roadmap Organize remediation into three horizons: - **Phase 1 — Foundation (0–3 months)**: Governance, materiality assessment, data architecture, gap ownership assignment - **Phase 2 — Data & Disclosure Build (3–9 months)**: Emissions inventory completion, KPI collection, transition plan drafting, Taxonomy calculations - **Phase 3 — Assurance & Filing Readiness (9–12 months)**: Internal controls, assurance dry-run, disclosure drafting, board sign-off For each remediation action specify: the action, the gap it closes, a suggested owner (function), estimated effort, and dependencies. ## Output Format - **Structure**: Structured compliance document with tables for applicability, requirement inventory, and gap ratings; ranked priority list; phased roadmap - **Length**: 1,400–2,000 words - **Format**: Structured document — applicability and gap sections as tables, remediation as phased action lists - **Sections**: Applicability determination → Requirement inventory by regulation → Current-state gap assessment → Gap severity & compliance risk ratings → Ranked compliance priorities → Phased remediation roadmap → Key risks & assurance notes - **Tone**: Compliance advisory — precise, regulation-grounded, risk-aware, and directive; written for a legal and executive audience that must act on it ## Quality Checklist Before delivering output, verify: - [ ] Applicability is explicitly confirmed for each regulation against stated thresholds — not assumed - [ ] Every requirement is classified as Compliant / Partial / Missing / Not applicable with evidence or rationale - [ ] Every Partial and Missing gap has a severity rating (Critical/High/Medium/Low) with reasoning across legal, data, and assurance dimensions - [ ] Priority ranking accounts for remediation lead time — long-lead items rank above equal-severity quick fixes - [ ] The remediation roadmap is split into three dated phases with owners and dependencies for each action - [ ] CSRD gaps reference relevant ESRS pillars/datapoints where CSRD is in scope ## Notes - The single most common fatal gap is Scope 3 emissions and value-chain data — it has the longest lead time and cannot be assembled near a deadline, so it should nearly always rank Critical or High - Double materiality assessment is a CSRD prerequisite that determines which topics must be reported at all; if it hasn't been done, it belongs in Phase 1 before any data build - This analysis supports but does not replace formal legal counsel on applicability determinations — flag where a qualified legal review is required - Where a company faces overlapping regimes (e.g., CSRD and SEC climate), note shared data foundations so one remediation effort satisfies multiple requirements --- ## How to use this skill This file is a Claude Code skill in [Anthropic's standard format](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) — markdown with YAML frontmatter at the top. **Installing in Claude Code:** - `~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads in every session anywhere on your machine (recommended for skills you'll use across multiple projects) - `/.claude/skills//SKILL.md` — auto-loads only when working in that project (recommended for project-specific skills) Restart Claude Code or open a new session to register. **Using in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools:** 1. 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