ESG / SUSTAINABILITY

ESG / Sustainability

Disclosure Progress “Much too Slow” – CDP

By ESG Investor | 08/02/2024

The number of firms disclosing rose 24% in 2023, but only slow progress is being made to improve the quality of climate and nature.

Crypto / Digital Assets

HK Breaks New Ground With Digital Green Bond Issuance

By Editors | 08/02/2024

This is the first multi-currency digital bond offering in the world, and the first digitally native bond issuance in Hong Kong.

ESG / Sustainability

EU Agrees Regulatory Approach for ESG Rating Providers

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 07/02/2024

ESG rating providers will need to be authorised and supervised by the ESMA and comply with transparency requirements.

ESG / Sustainability

China Releases New Trading Rules for National Carbon Market

By Editors | 06/02/2024

The new regulations cover all the main aspects of carbon emission trading and address the issue of carbon emission data falsification.

ESG / Sustainability

UK Environment Agency Launches Economic Crime Unit

By Editors | 06/02/2024

The unit will boost the Environment Agency’s efforts to tackle money laundering and carry out financial investigations in the waste sector.

ESG / Sustainability

New Climate Risk Data Platform for FIs Goes Live in Taiwan

By Editors | 01/02/2024

The FSC said the platform will help FIs in developing models, disclosing information, conducting scenario analysis, and performing stress tests.

ESG / Sustainability

IESBA Proposes Ethics Standards to Improve Sustainability Reporting

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 31/01/2024

The global standard-setting board conducted extensive outreach, including roundtables in Singapore and Sydney last year, for the development of new standards.

ESG / Sustainability

STACS Joins Malaysia’s SEDG Adopter Programme

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 29/01/2024

Capital Markets Malaysia developed the programme last October to guide local SMEs in disclosing ESG data from their supply chains.

ESG / Sustainability

Taiwan to Launch Certification System for Sustainable Finance

By Editors | 26/01/2024

The certification is divided into two stages, the first for obtaining “basic abilities” and the second for “advanced abilities” in sustainable finance.