Regulation

Right-wing critics of ESG are increasingly turning their attention to SEC’s oversight of shareholder proposals. Is this simply old wine in new bottles or a genuine threat to a decades’ old system?

The thinktank also provided details about its recent work developing the Thai and Hong Kong taxonomies.

The GTAG suggests allowing firms to disclose the extent to which they meet DNSH criteria, reducing qualitative language and streamlining data points.

The regulator will also form an international forum on impact investing.

European Commission confirms disclosures under new sustainability reporting rules will be subject to materiality assessments in text adopted on Monday.

Financial watchdog calls on European Commission to consider defining standards for sector's codes of conduct.

The watchdog has contacted a handful companies over poor reporting.

The latest developments in sustainable finance: ISSB launches consultation on sustainability disclosure taxonomy; Reserve Bank of India to issue guidance on climate-related credit risks.

The ISSB’s current plans to include social factors will miss the mark, say Shift’s president Caroline Rees and the World Benchmarking Alliance’s Namit Agarwal, proposing an alternative way forward.

Investors, sustainable finance bodies and non-profits respond to Australian government’s second consultation on mandatory climate disclosures.