UK budget: What’s next for the sustainable finance agenda?
UK finance minister John Healey insisted the country was “unshakeably committed” to net zero in his budget announcement…
UK reporting U-turn must not give firms ‘free pass’, investors say
Investors say robust oversight will be crucial following the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) move to implement the UK…
European Parliament to approve stricter SFDR fossil fuel safeguards
MEPs are on course to approve the European Parliament’s official position on the revised Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation…
US Republicans target Big Four auditors over ‘climate activism’
The “Big Four” auditing firms have become the latest target of Republican attorneys general in their efforts to…
Companies call on EU to ditch taxonomy opex disclosures
Submissions to a consultation on revisions to the reporting requirements for the EU Taxonomy taxonomy-focused KPI reporting show…
ESG round-up: IIGCC calls for closer EU-UK interoperability on disclosures
The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change has called for closer interoperability between the EU and UK’s sustainable finance…
ECB issues warning over permanent reliefs for EU sustainability disclosures
The European Central Bank (ECB) has raised “points of concerns” over proposed amendments to the European Sustainability Reporting…
Confronting the realities of climate adaptation
The financial impacts of climate risks Which asset classes are experiencing the financial impacts of physical climate risk…
ECB’s Lagarde warns of negative impacts of EU sustainability disclosure cuts
European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde has repeated previous warnings made by the supervisor about the potential…
Austrian financial firms pilot new decarbonisation metric in government partnership
Austria’s Environment Agency has teamed up with some of the country’s largest financial institutions to pilot a new…
EU financial regulators warn EFRAG against deviations from ISSB framework
Source: Getty Representatives from the European Central Bank (ECB) and European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) have warned…
Ensuring credibility of transition finance is a ‘challenge’, says Japan’s former ESG regulator
Few people can claim to have made more impact on Japan’s sustainable finance policies than Satoshi Ikeda, outgoing…