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TNFD to pilot test nature principles

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has begun pilot testing a set of nature data principles before making recommendations for upgrading market access to decision-useful nature data at COP30 in Belem, Brazil later this year.

NatureMetrics: moving beyond eDNA

NatureMetrics is exploring new datasets to help cater for growing demand. Genevieve Redgrave reports

Key MEP proposes raising CSRD threshold to exclude more mid-sized firms

SEC withdraws ESG fund name rules

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has formally withdrawn proposals to govern the information fund managers and advisers must provide when they market funds as having an environmental, social or governance (ESG) focus.

ISSB 'profiles' degree of alignment of national standards with its own

About 80% of jurisdictions that have said they will use the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards plan "full adoption", according to analysis the board said illustrates "the high degree of alignment" with its work.

Clean Industrial Deal's transformative potential overshadowed by Omnibus, says Schroders

The transformative potential of the EU's Clean Industrial Deal (CID) has been overlooked in public discourse, in part because of the emotive debate about the Omnibus regulatory simplification package, according to Schroders' head of public policy for Europe.

ESG 2.0: Sustainable reversal in the era of the Omnibus Directive

Is the EU streamlining the system, or compromising the consistency and quality of sustainability information, asks Allegra Ianiri

Deutsche Bank: Reporting hundreds of KPIs under CSRD a 'waste of time'

From Peter Cripps in Hamburg

ISSB's proposals would limit accountability in financial industry, PCAF says

Proposals to allow entities to omit finance-related emissions from their reporting would "lead to limited accountability for the climate impact of financial transactions,"...

Investors need climate data, says senator supporting NY climate risk disclosure bill

Institutional investors are among the most vociferous backers of US climate risk disclosures even if the country's federal government "seem[s] to be getting out of the climate business, and the climate data collection business," a New York state senator backing a proposed reporting bill has said.