ESG / Sustainability

Big Picture

PwC Offers ESG Risk Management Recommendations for Banks

By Manesh Samtani | 09/03/2021

Banks need to adopt training and change management programmes to ensure employees embrace ESG risk management as a requirement and discipline.

ESG / Sustainability

IFRS Foundation Outlines Plans for Sustainability Reporting Board

By Editors | 08/03/2021

The Trustees remain on track to make a final determination about a new board in advance of the November 2021 United Nations COP26 conference.

Enforcement

US SEC Forms Task Force to Pursue ESG-related Misconduct

By Editors | 08/03/2021

The task force’s initial focus will be to identify material gaps or misstatements in issuers’ disclosure of climate risks under existing rules.

ESG / Sustainability

SGX Acquires Stake in Rubber Trading Platform HeveaConnect

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 08/03/2021

The investment will bolster HeveaConnect’s capability as a price discovery platform for sustainable natural rubber, in line with SGX’s recent focus on sustainability.

Capital / Liquidity

FSC Korea Unveils Policy Plans for Insurance Sector

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 06/03/2021

The policy plans include measures to promote digital insurance products and establish standards for online platform services, among other measures.

ESG / Sustainability

EU: Delay to Finalised RTS Generates SFDR Uncertainty

By ESG Investor | 04/03/2021

Asset managers had hoped that finalised regulatory technical standards for Level 2 SFDR reporting would be available to assist preparations for Level 1 compliance.

ESG / Sustainability

Japan FSA To Review ESG Fund Labelling Rules

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 04/03/2021

Discussions with asset managers and fund distributors may start by June to assess whether rules for mutual fund labels can guard against greenwashing.

ESG / Sustainability

UK to Launch Post-Brexit Carbon Trading Scheme in May

By ESG Investor | 02/03/2021

The UK’s emissions trading scheme is “unlikely” to diverge too much from the EU’s regime, says Hæge Fjellheim, Head of Carbon Research at Refinitiv.

ESG / Sustainability

China, US to Co-Chair G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group

By Editors | 02/03/2021

The Sustainable Finance Study Group is being re-established after a two-year suspension, with the PBOC and the US Treasury as its co-chairs.