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COP29 finance day: Harmonisation initiatives the highlight of underwhelming day

Multi-jurisdiction taxonomies and a push for harmonised transition plan rules stole the headlines, as finance proved a sticking point, Michael Hurley writes

Final 'Sustainable Development Impact Disclosure' guidance published

COP29: 1.5°C slipping away without mandatory transition plans, says Guterres

UN secretary-general António Guterres has called for mandatory rules for corporates and financial institutions to have 1.5°C-aligned transition plans, after warning that efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C are "slipping away".

IOSCO encourages regulators to clarify issuers' liability for transition plans

Standard setters and regulators have been "encourage[d]" to provide "markers on what would constitute forward-looking information" to show preparers of transition plans the extent of information they can provide without expecting to be sued.

Q&A with TNFD's David Craig

The co-chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures talks to Peter Cripps about why the organisation is consulting on an open-access nature data 'facility'

Members network to push for 'global norms' on transition plans after TPT disbands

A membership network is set for launch that will "support the development of global norms for transition plans", the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) revealed in a report marking the end of the taskforce.

Webinar: Vague definition of greenwashing deters 'transition' finance

The growth of 'transition' finance is being held back by fears among debt issuers of being accused of greenwashing - a situation exacerbated by national regulators failing to clearly define what constituted greenwashing, a webinar hosted by Environmental Finance heard.

EFRAG agrees partnership to promote 'inequality and social-related financial disclosures'

Judging the credibility of transition plans, part two

Investors preparing for a wave of transition plan disclosures face a complicated task to determine 'what good looks like', Michael Hurley writes

Judging the credibility of transition plans, part one

Investors preparing for a wave of transition plan disclosures face a complicated task to determine 'what good looks like', Michael Hurley writes