Tag: Paris Agreement

Environmental risks get sidelined in corporate reporting
Woefully few companies report fully in line with Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures guidelines, the ISSB has found.

Steps to a sustainable supply chain
The clock has started ticking on the implementation of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

Campaigners push for progress on due diligence law
Germany urged to rethink its stance on the recently delayed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

Boards tasked to ‘focus on decarbonising supply chain’
In advance of COP28, IIA report says comprehensive due diligence will help business avoid sabotaging net zero target.

Fink: the term ESG has been ‘weaponised’
But investment giant BlackRock’s chief executive said its focus on long-term investment and corporate governance would continue.

How climate change alters the financial landscape
To achieve sustainability, companies and boards will need to look not only to their operations, but also to their finances.

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

BNP Paribas faces climate lawsuit over sustainability due diligence
NGOs join up to pursue bank through the courts for failing to comply with French law on human rights and sustainability due diligence.

EU sustainability reporting rules face scrutiny
As the new rules wend their way through the EU drafting process, interested parties from all sides clamour to be heard.

Investors favour votes against directors over say-on-climate proposals
Rather than push for say-on-climate votes, unhappy shareholders tend to simply vote against the reappointment of directors, research finds.