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ESG Integrated Disclosure Project (“IDP”) Announces New Leadership Team and Updated Reporting Template

Understanding COP29: What to expect in 2024

As the world prepares for the 29th Conference of the Parties (“COP29”), set to take place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11 to 22, 2024, it’s essential to understand its significance and the agenda that will shape the discussions. This annual climate summit brings together representatives from nearly 200 countries to coordinate global climate action and negotiate policies to address the climate crisis.

Essential guide to Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (“CSRD”) compliance: Navigate new sustainability reporting requirements

The CSRD represents a significant shift in sustainability reporting, requiring EU businesses to disclose their environmental and social impacts, as well as how ESG factors influence operations.

Why the 'S' in ESG matters: Social responsibility in sustainable investing

When you hear the term ESG—environmental, social, and governance—what comes to mind? Most likely, you think of climate change, Greenhouse gas emissions reductions, or ethical governance practices. But how often do you stop and think about the ‘S’ in ESG—the social dimension? The ‘S’ often gets overshadowed by its more compelling counterparts, but it’s no less crucial. In fact, for businesses and investors alike, understanding and focusing on social factors can lead to stronger, more resilient companies, making it essential to sustainable investing.

Three ways AI will help ESG in private markets, and three ways it will not

Aileen Sartor, ESG Product Manager ESG requirements for companies are increasing, whether due to changing regulations, demands from investors, or calls for transparency to mitigate greenwashing. This trend is causing a growing workload for ESG and sustainability professionals. Such demands require considerable time for gathering and understanding information, and this is before one even considers the more interesting and impactful work related to strategy and implementation. Rapidly developing AI models will be able to support ESG professionals by providing the data they need to collect, gathering the relevant data points, and ensuring auditability is maintained.

Australia passes law to begin mandatory climate reporting in 2025 – ESG Today

Australia's new Treasury Laws Amendment Bill mandates medium and large companies to report climate-related risks and emissions from January 2025.

The evolution of SFDR: one step closer to SDR, one step further from defining impact

Madeleine Kelly, Larissa Machiels, and Cristian Echavarria Quiroga As sustainability has become a growing area of focus for regulatory bodies, legal frameworks have taken on an unparalleled level of importance in shaping the financial landscape. In the European context, the two leading legal frameworks carving out the responsible investment market are the EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”) and the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (“SDR”).

HKEX adopts new climate disclosure rules for transparency

Douwe Muller, Associate, and Cristian Echavarria Quiroga, Principal The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (“the exchange”), a subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (“HKEX”), has adopted the new climate requirements (“the requirements”) proposals on the enhancement of climate-related disclosures into law under its environmental, social, and governance reporting code (“ESG code”) on Friday, April 19 2024.

ADGM’s ESG Disclosures Framework

Nicole Balarezo Urteaga, Associate In June 2023, the Abu Dhabi Global Market (“ADGM”), the financial regulator of the United Arab Emirates, published its ESG Disclosures Framework. Through this regulation, ADGM introduced reporting requirements for environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) information for certain companies and financial institutions registered in this financial hub.