Reporting & Disclosures

    News Coverage on regulatory mandates, standards and challenges in ESG reporting and sustainability disclosures for financial and non-financial entities.

    Structural Regulation

    Japan FSA Set to Revise Corporate Governance Code

    By Editors | 02/03/2021

    The new code will require listed companies to have more independent board directors, promote management diversity, and improve environmental disclosures.

    Climate Risk

    Malaysian FIs to Start Applying Climate Risk Taxonomy

    By Editors | 02/03/2021

    Financial institutions will begin capturing exposures based on the Climate Change and Principles-Based Taxonomy over the course of 2021.

    Reporting & Disclosures

    SEBI to Issue ESG Disclosure Guidelines for Listed Companies

    By Editors | 02/03/2021

    Chairman Ajay Tyagi said SEBI will issue new guidelines “soon”, with a view to achieving greater transparency and accountability from listed companies on ESG.

    Climate Risk

    Former SEC Chairman Embraces Climate-Related Disclosure

    By ESG Investor | 01/03/2021

    Jay Clayton had previously defended voluntary ESG disclosures as opposed to mandatory, insisting that flexible requirements would be effective.

    Emerging Prudential Risks

    IOSCO Publishes Work Programme for 2021-2022

    By Editors | 28/02/2021

    New priorities will be to address the risks of NBFI activities and risks exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic such as misconduct, fraud and operational resilience.

    Sustainable Finance

    Is a Global Taxonomy the ‘Investment Highway’ to a Net-Zero Transition?

    By ESG Investor | 27/02/2021

    ESG Investor talked to sustainable finance experts and stakeholders on the forms a global taxonomy should take to scale climate finance internationally.

    Reporting & Disclosures

    SGX, OneConnect Partner to Develop ESG Reporting Platform

    By Editors | 26/02/2021

    The platform will help SGX listed companies to efficiently manage their sustainability disclosures, make them more transparent, and improve overall ESG performance in the long run.

    Sustainable Finance

    Trade Associations Issue Update to Green Loan Principles

    By Editors | 15/02/2021

    The update includes social risks in the categories to be considered as part of project evaluation and selection. Previously only environmental risks were included.

    Sustainable Finance

    IIF Offers Recommendations on Aligning Climate Finance Regulation

    By Editors | 13/02/2021

    The recommendations are aimed at promoting consensus and international alignment in sustainable finance policy and regulation.

    Sustainable Finance

    Singapore v EU: How Their Green Taxonomies Compare

    By Shuhui Kwok | 11/02/2021

    Allen & Overy’s Shuhui Kwok discusses Singapore’s proposed green taxonomy, describing how it aligns with – and differs from – the EU Taxonomy Regulation.

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