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  • SEC withdraws ESG fund name rules

    13 June 2025

    The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has formally withdrawn proposals to govern the information fund managers and advisers must provide when they market funds as having an environmental, social or governance (ESG)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

  • Thailand publishes extension of sustainability taxonomy

    29 May 2025
  • 'Proxy voting is not dead'

    16 April 2025

    This AGM season will reveal shareholders' climate resolve, writes Michael Hurley

  • SEC ends defence of climate rule in 'backward step for investors'

    28 March 2025

    The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ended defence of its own climate disclosure rule, signalling a major blow to hopes it could be saved from legal challenges.

  • US SEC delays anti-greenwashing 'names rule' compliance deadline by six months

    20 March 2025
  • 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.

  • Investors need to engage US policymakers to ensure ESG not prohibited, says ex-SEC director

    11 February 2025

    There is heightened need for investors to engage with US policymakers to ensure they do not prohibit consideration of material ESG factors in investments, a former policy director at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has urged.

  • US state financial officials call on SEC, DoL to curb ESG investing

    04 February 2025
  • Philippines SEC consults on green equity segment

    06 January 2025
  • Scrambled regs to give investors indigestion in 2025

    20 December 2024

    Investors must digest a diet of disparate sustainable finance regulations in the year ahead. Michael Hurley reports