With COP26 around the corner, the UK financial regulators have set out the actions that they, and the financial sector, are taking in...
The Climate Financial Risk Forum (CFRF), which is chaired jointly by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct...
The greatly anticipated UK Heat and Buildings Strategy has finally been published. As expected, the strategy contains lofty targets in...
With the preparations for COP26 in full swing and the headlines dominated on a daily basis by a new report telling the world how much...
On Friday 22 October 2021, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) (i.e. ESMA, EBA and EIOPA) published a revised draft of the...
The UK government has announced in its Greening Finance Roadmap published earlier this week that “certain firms” will be required to...
What? On 18 October 2021, the UK government published its Greening Finance Roadmap setting out details of: a new integrated regime for...
On 21 September 2021, President Xi Jinping announced at the United Nations General Assembly that China would not build new coal-fired...
Financial services regulators are increasingly considering how D&I can be incorporated within their monitoring, supervisory and...
We previously wrote about the Biden administration's decision to forego enforcement of Trump-era rules from the Department of Labor (DOL)...
Managing expectations Although there are high expectations for COP26, let’s not forget that UN negotiations are more akin to a lumbering...
On October 5, 2021, California Governor Newsom signed into law a suite of state environmental bills aimed at plastics and recycling....
There are three key decisions that world leaders will need to decide at COP26 in Glasgow on 31 October to 12 November. Will countries be...
On 6 September 2021, Yomiuri Shimbun Online reported that the government of Japan would begin demonstration experiments to deploy solar...
The current IPO of Allbirds, the “self-styled ethical shoemaker”, reminds issuers and their boards that regulators and investors continue...
220 financial institutions with assets over US$29 trillion have asked 1,600 companies worldwide to urgently set science-based emissions...