ESG / Sustainability

Siva Ramachandran and Phoebe Chan call on investment professionals to integrate natural capital into their investment process, staff training and risk analysis.

The Code covers disclosures on policies for achieving gender equality and managing and reporting on environmental and social impacts.

Only a “small number” issuing specific decarbonisation or net zero requirements; IGCC urges investors to “translate aspirations into action”.

The EBA says competent authorities should take appropriate supervisory measures to ensure banks and investment firms comply with the EU's mandatory diversity policy.

At Invest Malaysia 2023, funding incentives for the Bursa Carbon Exchange were also announced, along with other initiatives to increase the vibrancy of the Malaysian capital market.

The initiative, announced last November, is designed to provide technical assistance and funding to help SMEs decarbonise their operations.

The ACCC has established a new taskforce that will focus on sustainability and its intersection with competition and consumer law.

The updated framework provides offers guidance to help financial institutions evaluate securities lending in the context of their ESG policies.

The British Standard Institute has launched a sustainable finance standard to help ‘demystify’ principles for the market.

Out of 247 businesses reviewed during the ACC's internet sweep, 57 percent made "concerning claims about their environmental credentials".