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  • 'New era' for sustainability reporting as IFRS unveils standards

    26 June 2023

    Standards that can provide a "common language" for sustainability-related disclosures have been published, "ushering in a new era" for companies and investors globally, according to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation.

  • PRI rallies investors to pressure Commission to rethink ESRS

    19 June 2023
  • Collaborative sovereign climate engagement is 'opportunity to be grasped'

    09 June 2023

    After initial success with its Australian pilot, the PRI's Tom Arup tells Ahren Lester its collaborative sovereign engagement initiative is ready to scale up

  • Ground-breaking PRI sovereign investor engagement initiative expands

    24 May 2023

    More investors have been asked to join a ground-breaking collaborative fixed income investor engagement initiative for sovereign issuers coordinated by the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

  • Call to exclude biodiversity offsets from EU Taxonomy

    09 May 2023

    The proposed EU taxonomy of sustainable activities should be amended to exclude projects that generate biodiversity offsets, advisory group the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF) has said.

  • Financial institutions in scope of EU due diligence rules after vote

    26 April 2023

    Financial institutions would be required to disclose climate transition plans and conduct due diligence to ensure they do not contribute to negative impacts across their value chain, under new rules agreed by an influential EU Parliamentary committee.

  • How to make CSDD fit for purpose: The investor perspective

    17 April 2023

    The EU must work to ensure coherence between due diligence rules and those for sustainability disclosures, write Emily Murrell, Elise Attal and Aleksandra Palinska

  • TCFD 'implementation gaps' mar PRI reporting

    17 March 2023

    Investment managers need to more robustly implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has said.

  • COP out: how the promise of Glasgow has faded

    15 March 2023

    Investors should be ready to push UK policymakers to change course on climate, Eliette Riera writes

  • Four years after Brumadinho - investor mining commission launches

    25 January 2023

    Investors have launched a commission to raise sustainability standards in the mining sector, four years after the Brumadinho mining disaster, which killed 270 people.