The clock has started ticking on the implementation of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

Climate change campaigning investors have written to 107 companies, asking for prompt proof of net zero transition proposals.

Since the TCFD published its recommendations in 2017, many more companies have risen to the challenge. But ‘urgent progress’ is still needed.

The Bank of England regulator has published proposals on what it expects the boards of financial services firms to do to tackle climate risk.

The IPCC’s stark warning about the rate of change needed to restrict global warming to no more than 1.5℃ intensifies the pressure on business.