Oct 17, 2024 The impact of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive on businesses in Asia By Rachel Barrett Julia Grothaus David Ballegeer Tom Cobbaert Gilly Hutchinson +2 more... Show less The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (the CSRD) seeks to fundamentally change the approach to sustainability reporting...
May 08, 2024 China finalises the mandatory sustainability reporting requirements for listed companies By Amy Ding Hunter Li Alex Roberts Jennifer Wu +1 more... Show less Around two months after the issuance of the draft guidelines for public consultation (the Drafts), each of the Shanghai Stock Exchange...
Feb 27, 2024 China’s stock exchanges release for public consultation mandatory sustainability reporting requirements for listed companies By Alex Roberts Amy Ding Hunter Li On 8 February 2024, each of China’s three major stock markets - the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) and...
Oct 30, 2023 Final regulations published for the China Certified Emission Reduction Scheme By Karen Lam Jenny Wong On 19 October 2023, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China (MEE) and the State Administration for...
Jul 19, 2023 One step closer to re-launching the China Certified Emission Reduction Scheme By Karen Lam Chris Staples Gilly Hutchinson Wayne Huang +1 more... Show less After a six-year hiatus in the trading of voluntary emission reduction under the China Certified Emission Reduction Scheme (CCER),...
Jan 31, 2023 Recent developments in the low carbon hydrogen sector in Asia By Xylia Sim Hirofumi Taba Jianbin Wang Simonette Santos Gilly Hutchinson +2 more... Show less Key to the de-carbonisation plans for many companies, industries and countries globally is low carbon hydrogen and its derivatives...
Nov 21, 2022 China further encourages foreign investment in green sectors by publishing new encouraged industry catalogue By Amy Ding Simonette Santos Gilly Hutchinson Jianbin Wang +1 more... Show less On 28 October 2022, the National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) and the Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) of China published...
Nov 11, 2022 China releases guidance on ESG commitments to data security and personal information protection By Tiantian Ke Alex Roberts Data security and privacy protection practices are coming increasingly under the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) spotlight....
Nov 01, 2022 Carbon trading gives wings to China’s green goals By Gilly Hutchinson As an important milestone in its progress on climate action, China's national exchange for carbon emissions trading began operations in...
Nov 01, 2022 Mainland China: President Xi promotes green development at China’s 20th Communist Party Congress By Gilly Hutchinson Amy Ding On 16 October 2022, President Xi gave a two-hour opening speech to the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in which...
Sep 14, 2022 Insights from UK-China ESG Summit By Alex Roberts Last Wednesday, I attended the second iteration of the British Chamber of Commerce Shanghai’s Sustainability and ESG Summit in China’s...