Archive

• ASCOR: Growth, refinements to continue after 'strong' 2024

  26 March 2025

  The Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risks (ASCOR) tool is expected to be expanded to 80 countries by the end of 2025.

• Biodiversity financing and the European Green Deal: an opportunity amidst adversity

  25 March 2025

  The European Green Deal, which aims to transform the EU into the first climate-neutral continent and halt biodiversity loss, is currently in jeopardy, writes Geoffroy Marcassoli

• The impact of SDR goes deeper than its four sustainability labels

  20 March 2025

  The FCA's Sustainability Disclosure Requirements regime is helping purge the fund market, writes Jennifer Forrest

• The EU Omnibus' rocky road

  14 March 2025

  As negotiations on the Omnibus proposal begin, Michael Hurley presents an overview of the story so far

• The Omnibus is welcome - but the EU must go further and fully align with ISSB

  12 March 2025

  We need regulatory rollback - despite it running counter to the ESG data industry's prevailing narrative, writes Kentaro Kawamori

• Which of the UK's SDR labels is proving most popular?

  07 March 2025

  There are four labels under the UK's Sustainability Disclosures Requirements - but which are investors flocking to and which are they shunning? Jennifer Forrest investigates

• Does the EU's Omnibus reduce transition planning to a publicity exercise?

  03 March 2025

  Experts are divided over what a change in wording in the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive means for climate transition plans, Michael Hurley reports

• EU Omnibus: A turning point for supply chain due diligence

  26 February 2025

  Simplification should not come at the cost of weakening due diligence mandates, which are essential for long-term competitiveness, writes Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon

• EU Omnibus: The end of 'the Brussels effect'?

  25 February 2025

  The European Commission needs to make the bloc more competitive and sustainable, while maintaining its soft power, writes Marcio Viegas

• Safeguarding the EU's sustainable finance framework is critical for its competitiveness

  21 February 2025

  Efforts to make the EU's sustainable finance regulations work better for everyone are welcome, but investors need high-quality sustainability data and regulatory certainty, write Stephanie Pfeifer, Aleksandra Palinska, and David Atkin