Policy

  • With AI, 'people will not spend time on reporting anymore'

    07 February 2025

    An 'AI Sustainability Agent' has been launched with the aim of transforming the task of gathering data for sustainability reporting from one that takes tens of hours into minutes.

  • Omnibus regs: EFRAG chair backs CSRD mid-caps category, says cuts possible to narrative reporting

    07 February 2025

    The chair of the EU's standard setting body has said it "is sympathetic to" creating a new category of 'intermediate'-sized companies if it helped achieve the EU's simplification agenda without undermining its goal of improving sustainability reporting.

  • Investment Association says UK taxonomy no longer needed

    07 February 2025

    The Investment Association (IA) has told the UK to scrap its plans for a 'green taxonomy', telling the Government such a framework is unnecessary due to Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and work on transition planning.

  • Closed-door consultation on EU omnibus feeds NGO fears of big cutbacks

    06 February 2025

    A closed-door consultation by the European Commission of companies, business groups and NGOs fed concerns that major changes to EU sustainability regulations would include eradicating the 'double materiality' principle and transition plan disclosures, NGOs at the meeting said.

  • 'SLBs can be the right tool for impact investing' urge investors

    06 February 2025

    Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) have the potential to be valuable impact investing tools and regulations in Europe could be building the right "home" for the performance-based instrument,...

  • ClarityAI launches tool for fund managers to monitor fund name, label alignment

    06 February 2025
  • Judge dismisses challenges against California climate disclosure rules

    05 February 2025
  • EU sustainability rule cutback is chance to coalesce with 'global baseline' - IFRS chair

    05 February 2025

    The EU's plans to reduce its sustainability reporting requirements present an opportunity to align more closely with the IFRS sustainability disclosure standards, according to the chair of the IFRS Foundation.

  • EU advisers present taxonomy overhaul to 'cut reporting burden by one-third'

    05 February 2025

    The EU should allow companies and financial institutions to use estimates and data proxies more widely when reporting alignment with the EU Taxonomy, among measures to reduce reporting requirements of businesses by "more than one-third", according to advisers.

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

    04 February 2025
  • Signatories to Japan ESG data code of conduct rise to 28

    04 February 2025
  • GFANZ pauses work on nature in transition planning, index investing

    04 February 2025
  • Investors sound alarm that EU's Omnibus threatens 'significant weakening' of ESG data

    04 February 2025

    The European Commission's plans to overhaul sustainability reporting risk hollowing out the EU sustainable finance framework and jeopardising its Green Deal, it has been warned by investors with a combined €6.6 trillion ($6.8 trillion) in assets.

  • ECB urged to use 2025 policy review to 'green' its asset purchases

    03 February 2025
  • German accounting standard-setter suggests delaying CSRD

    03 February 2025