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Australian regulator to look at adaptation

The Australian financial regulator has told Environmental Finance that it will look at integrating adaptation further into its guidance and predicts that it will be "iteratively" integrated into the national sustainable finance taxonomy.

UK consults on transition plan rules, ISSB-aligned standards

The UK Government has launched consultations on mandatory transition planning, UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (SRS) and assurance of sustainability reporting, as it aims to "secure the City of London's place as the sustainable finance capital of the world".

EU countries back cutbacks to CSDDD, CSRD

What other countries can learn from how China financed a green transformation

China's green transformation has come about more from "financing green" than "greening finance", write Calvin Quek and Mathias Larsen

Transition planning 'not a legal trap', lawyers say ahead of UK rules

The expected introduction in the UK of rules requiring the publication of climate transition plans is unlikely to increase legal risks for companies compared with existing company law, according to specialist barristers.

UK lays ground for ISSB endorsement and transition plan consultation

ISSB has 'fixed' sustainability fragmentation, Faber says on release of transition plan guide

Countries that have adopted the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards have "fixed" the risk of fragmentation of sustainability reporting for investors, the chair of the ISSB claimed.

EU should 'reset' reporting rules to align with ISSB, says investor group

The EU should use its Omnibus 'simplification' drive to perform a broad "reset" of its European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) to align more closely with the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards, according to Dutch investor group Eumedion.

Omnibus uncertainty to make EU supervisors' work harder, says ESMA

Taxonomy alignment of EU insurers and pension fund assets around 10%, EIOPA says