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  • TotalEnergies to generate 50 million nature-based credits

    28 March 2025

    TotalEnergies has revealed plans to generate 50 million nature-based carbon credits by 2030.

  • About 2,700 companies subject to California climate risk rule, Ceres estimates

    12 March 2025

    Almost 2,700 companies are set to be subject to California rules that require them to say how climate change poses risks to their global operations, in alignment with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Ceres has estimated.

  • Cisco warns against bonfire of regulation as EU finalises its Omnibus redraft

    31 January 2025

    The prospect of "three or four years" of re-negotiating sustainability regulations is a major "worry" for tech giant Cisco, its head of EU policy said as she warned against a "bonfire of regulations".

  • Average company's CSRD reports may be limited to 300 datapoints, MSCI suggests

    30 January 2025
  • Mars, Unilever & Nestle warn EU against omnibus sustainability regulation

    17 January 2025

    Business giants Mars, Unilever and Nestle have urged the European Commission against reopening several sustainability rules under a proposed 'omnibus' regulation, saying they risk undermining investment and competitiveness.

  • French regulator wades into CSRD debate with call for faster adoption of sector-specific ESRS

    17 January 2025

    The French accounting standards authority has suggested the EU should speed up adoption of sector-specific reporting standards as part of a radical overhaul that could contribute to reducing requirements under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

  • GHG Protocol should tell companies which Scope 3 emissions are material, says GMO

    13 January 2025

    International standard setters should clarify which disclosures companies are expected to provide from activities in their value chain, as such information is often too sparse for investors to compare, GMO's sustainability head has suggested.

  • Governance failings dominate ESG-driven ratings actions, S&P reveals

    25 October 2024

    Governance failings were the most cited reason for a raft of more than 100 ESG-driven ratings 'actions' this year, S&P Global Ratings has revealed, as it said 47 issuers have been downgraded largely for ESG reasons.

  • Most companies see CSDDD as compliance exercise - not value driver, survey finds

    20 August 2024
  • Thinktank renews call for net zero accounting standard

    07 August 2024

    A thinktank has renewed its call for a "net zero accounting standard", arguing that financial accounts fail to adequately help investors understand companies' climate-related assets and liabilities.