More reporting standards consolidation – but is it a good move?
November 11, 2021
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation has this week announced further consolidation plans between global sustainability reporting standard setters.
On 3 November, the foundation announced …
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October 15, 2021
International accounting standards group Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) is seeking input from corporate finance and investment chiefs on trends and views on the evolving ESG investment …
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Chevron, ExxonMobil, BMW, and Air France-KLM among those not fully ‘accounting for climate-related risks’
September 24, 2021
Over 70% of listed, high-polluting companies around the world failed to adequately account for climate-related …
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Applicants include asset managers, asset owners, and service providers
September 10, 2021
One in three applicants to the UK’s Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Stewardship Code did not meet the required standard, …
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Technical gaps and weaknesses risk “carbon washing” of funds, warns the Transition Pathway Initiative
July 23, 2021
UK-based asset owners have warned that the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) portfolio alignment …
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June 25, 2021
Leading global tech groups are resisting plans to include ESG disclosures in financial statements to US regulators.
Tech giants including Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook have written to the …
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June 25, 2021
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has attracted record support for its 2021 campaign for corporate environmental reporting.
The non-profit group said this week that 168 investors and financial institutions …
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June 25, 2021
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published plans to extend climate-related disclosures to all companies listed on London’s main stock market as well as to all asset managers, …
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May 21, 2021
Investors managing $2.9 trillion worth of assets have written to US congressional leaders calling on them to back a new law to improve tax transparency.
The 66 institutional investors are …
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May 21, 2021
Not-for-profit sustainability advocacy organization Ceres is urging companies and investors to get behind its campaign for more disclosure on carbon footprints.
The Boston-based group is calling on …
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