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Church of England Pension Board welcomes Shell CEO's statement

EFAMA calls for more time to help report in line with the taxonomy

The EU has been urged to give investors more time to help them report the alignment...

IIRC, SASB merge to form Value Reporting Foundation

The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) have confirmed their merger to form the Value Reporting Foundation.

S&P's Trucost calls for biodiversity risk data platform

The idea for a platform for hosting data showing the risk of biodiversity loss to financial institutions has been raised by Trucost, which sits within S&P Global's market and analytics arm.

Q&A with David Craig, co-chair of the TNFD

The goal of the TNFD is to ensure that nature-related costs and risks are factored into financial flows, and that money is redirected to be nature positive, Craig tells Michael Hurley

G7 backs mandatory TCFD reporting

The Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy democracies have expressed their support for "moving towards mandatory climate-related financial disclosures", setting the stage for such reporting to become the norm across multiple jurisdictions.

SEC ESG disclosures should not be filed publicly to avoid litigation risk, says Commissioner

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should only require public companies to provide mandatory environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures to the regulator privately rather than file them publicly, according to a SEC commissioner.

Nature goes mainstream - Welcome the TNFD

Today's launch of the TNFD is an important step towards ensuring financial flows are redirected to make a positive contribution to nature, writes Simon Zadek

Central bank collateral, asset purchase policies should be tied to climate reporting requirement, says Bundesbank

Eurozone central banks should require issuers to meet certain climate-related reporting obligations before securities are accepted as collateral or purchased, according to the German central bank head.

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