ESG regulation statistics

The register is a synced snapshot of the XG corpus: one row per in-force instrument, each carrying its jurisdiction, status, effective date where one is established, and a link to the official source. It is a working corpus, not a claim to hold every law everywhere — and what it links to is the primary text where we have it, otherwise the authority that publishes it.

As of August 2026, the XG Regulation Register tracks 850 in-force sustainability, environmental and energy regulations across 119 jurisdictions.

Coverage is deep in a few jurisdictions and one row wide in many. The fifteen largest jurisdictions below hold 594 of the 850 rows; the remaining 256 spread across 104 jurisdictions. International instruments — treaties, IMO and ICAO rules, framework conventions — are grouped under one international heading rather than assigned to a country.

As of August 2026, the United States is the largest single national jurisdiction in the register, with 113 regulations of its own. Coverage thins quickly after that: 29 of the 119 jurisdictions covered hold exactly one regulation each.

An effective date is recorded only where the corpus holds one from the instrument itself; the rows without one are instruments whose entry into force is staged, contested or simply not stated as a single date. The span runs from early conservation law to instruments whose obligations phase in years from now.

As of August 2026, 721 of the 850 regulations in the register (84.8%) carry a recorded effective date.

The oldest effective date in the register belongs to the US Lacey Act, effective 25 May 1900; the furthest out belongs to the UK Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (2035 Phase-Out), effective 1 January 2030.

Almost every row in the register links to an official source — a gazette, a regulator, or the instrument's own text. That is meant to be a condition of inclusion rather than a coverage statistic, and it is very nearly true: the exceptions are counted below rather than rounded away. Far fewer rows are written up in full, deliberately — a regulation earns a page only when the register holds a verified figure or threshold for it and there is demonstrated demand, never to fill space.

As of August 2026, 850 of the 850 regulations in the register (100%) carry a link to a primary official source. The other 0 carry none: what they had recorded was a placeholder that never pointed at anything, and removing it was better than leaving something that read like a citation. Of the rest, 21 are written up in full and theremaining 829 are listed in the full index.

The register's most requested dataset tracks what each EU member state's CSRD transposition actually penalises. A figure appears only when it can be traced to a primary source — a national gazette or competent authority. Where it cannot, the register publishes the absence rather than an estimate, which is why the traced count is well below the transposed count.

As of August 2026, 23 of the 27 EU member states have transposed CSRD into national law, and 10 member states carry a maximum penalty figure traced to a primary source.

As of August 2026, the euro-denominated maxima traced to primary sources run from €5,000 in Ireland to €10,000,000 in Italy and Germany — though Germany's figure is the existing HGB penalty for capital-market-oriented companies; Germany has not transposed CSRD. A further 1 member states set maxima in national currency: Bulgaria (BGN 15,000).

As of August 2026, 17 of the 27 member states have no penalty figure traced to a primary source — 14 of them despite having transposed. Of the 10 traced figures, 10 are verified against the gazette text itself and the rest are marked "reported, not gazette-verified".

The full table — every member state, with instrument, authority, caveats and per-row sources — is at CSRD penalties by country.

Every statistic on this page is computed at build time from the register's own data files — the corpus index synced weekly from the XG corpus, and the hand-verified CSRD penalty dataset. None is typed as a literal, so a corpus sync that changes the data changes this page in the same deployment. What the register includes and excludes, how figures are verified, what the confidence grades mean and where the known gaps are is stated in full on the methodology page.