Do No Significant Harm

Sustainability - sustainable finance - environmental objectives.

(DNSH).

In sustainable finance, Do No Significant Harm is the principle that - in addition to meeting specified environmental objectives - qualifying proposals must also do no significant harm in relation to any other environmental objective.

Do No Significant Harm is a key element in several regulatory regimes, including the EU's Taxonomy Regulation (TR), Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the EU Climate Transition Benchmarks Regulation (BMR).

See also

• Accounting for Sustainability (A4S)
• Biodiversity
• Business & Sustainable Development Commission
• Carbon footprint
• Climate change adaptation
• Climate change mitigation
• Common Ground Taxonomy
• Conference of the Parties
• Convention on Biological Diversity
• Corporate social responsibility
• Circular economy
• Draft Delegated Act
• Enabling activities
• ESG investment
• ESG transition
• EU Climate Transition Benchmarks Regulation
• EU Taxonomy
• European Commission
• European Union (EU)
• Global Sustainable Investment Alliance
• HLEG
• Metaeconomics
• Minimum Social Safeguards (MSS)
• Natural capital
• Organic
• Social taxonomy
• SRA
• SRI
• Stakeholder
• Substantial Contribution (SC)
• Sustainable Development Goals
• Sustainable finance (SF)
• Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)
• Sustainability
• Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
• Sustainability bond
• Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles (SLLP)
• Taxonomy alignment disclosures
• Taxonomy Regulation (TR)
• Technical Expert Group
• Technical Screening Criteria (TSC)
• Transitional activities
• UK Green Taxonomy
• UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association
• United Nations
• World Trade Organization

Other resource

• ‘Do No Significant Harm’ definitions and criteria across the EU Sustainable Finance framework