Climate

There are signs that companies are becoming less bullish on decarbonisation, but is it for good reason?

Strategies could form the basis of new transactions and prudential requirements, and even feed into subsidy regimes and public procurement rules.

The FCA, Treasury and Transition Plan Taskforce are all moving to fulfil a promise to mandate net zero strategies throughout the UK economy

Political negotiations resumed last week on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive with general agreement on the need for transition plans

Transition plans under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive aren't mandatory, but they're likely to be hard to dodge

UK bodies have been busy on standards and regulation in recent weeks, despite Sunak’s backpedalling on net zero While UK […]

June’s milestones included reporting standards from the ISSB and EU, and new rules for carbon offsets There are only a […]

European regulators have highlighted how data on company spending can be used to assess the credibility of climate transitions, but it's not always clear cut

Good intentions, sloppy language, data and the permafrost all contribute to Race to Zero's fudged requirements

The EU developed the green taxonomy to steer the private sector, but ignore it when it comes to public spending and industrial policy