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EFRAG says it aims to cut ESRS by 50% as it unveils draft proposals
20 June 2025EU advisers aim to cut European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) by about 50%, they revealed as they approved an initial draft progress report.
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High degree of variance in CSRD materiality assessments undermines comparability, ING says
20 June 2025'Messy' Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) reports due to variance in how entities applied double materiality assessments make it "extremely challenging to compare and understand the first CSRD disclosures", analysis by ING says.
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Bonn climate negotiations begin amidst financing pushback
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Public sector accounting standards setter splits workstreams
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Sustainable finance rules 'fully consistent with' €800bn defence push, EU says
18 June 2025The EU's sustainable finance rulebook "is fully consistent with" a push to invest €800 billion ($920 billion) in defence, the European Commission said as it suggested it was ready to change sustainable investment disclosure rules to support its objectives.
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EU ESG Rating Regulation to penalise small firms and benefit 'big four'
18 June 2025The EU's proposed regulation of ESG ratings firms threatens to penalise smaller data providers and could drive market share to the big US firms that dominate the market, it has been warned.
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Australian financial institutions to pilot sustainable finance taxonomy
17 June 2025The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) has published the Australian sustainable finance taxonomy covering "green and transition" activities - including those in minerals, mining and metals - which will now be tested by some of the country's largest financial institutions.
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Danger of CSDDD repeal is real, says key architect of NFRD
17 June 2025The prospect of a full repeal of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is real, a key architect of the bloc's foundational sustainability reporting rules has warned.
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A Europe without a course
17 June 2025Despite the multitude of sustainability-related directives it produces, Europe struggles to articulate where it wants to go and what it believes in, writes Philippe Zaouati
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Revised Stewardship Code could increase reporting burden rather than reduce it, NEST says
16 June 2025The simplified UK Stewardship Code could increase the reporting burden on signatories - contrary to the intended outcome of the overhaul, according to one of the country's largest pension funds.