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CSRD Approval Seen as Major Step in Closing ESG Data Holes
The European Union’s approval of its Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) this week has given the greenlight to a regulation that’s expected to provide financial institutions with more comprehensive ESG data and go some way to eradicating greenwashing. The long-awaited rules will bring non-financial companies into the EU’s sustainability reporting regime, forcing them to submit…
HK Companies Urged to Prepare for TCFD, ISSB Reporting Rules
Listed companies in Hong Kong should start planning and installing the technology and data provisions to meet more stringent disclosure rules, the city’s Stock Exchange has said. The HKSE is in the process of formulating reporting rules in line with the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) frameworks.
Could do Better: Year-End ESG Data Reports Offer Mixed Picture
The growing importance of ESG to the financial system was reflected this year in a greater push among investors and asset managers to address challenges in the data and reporting environment. Several end-of-year snapshots of the ESG sector paint a picture of greater engagement by the financial community in the sources and quality of the…
Clamour for ESG Data Makes Good Management Crucial
ESG data is now core to banks’ and financial institutions’ operations, their compliance and risk processes and the products they offer investors. For that reason, it’s crucial that this data be managed properly and treated in the same way as other datasets. Without good data management, banks can be left commercially and legally exposed, vulnerable…
Recorded Webinar: The keys to ESG data management success
The transition to a more environmentally and socially sustainable world has created an urgent and strategic priority for the banking and capital markets sector. Driven by stakeholder pressures from investors, regulators and customers to prioritise ESG considerations in their corporate agenda, ESG has accelerated digital transformation and brought a renewed focus on firms to improve…
ICE Service Enables Disclosure According to TCFD Framework
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has unveiled a tool that helps its financial institution clients disclose their sustainability performance in line with Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The new service pulls in ICE’s climate transition data and analytics, corporate-entity and green bond data.
EFRAG Gives Nod to EU Corporate Sustainable Reporting Standards
ESG reporting standards for European companies have been approved. The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) gave its backing to the final version of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), which will prescribe how companies must disclose their ESG performance.
European Parliament Adopts CSRD
The European Union’s parliament has endorsed the creation of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the regulation that’s intended to oblige larger non-financial companies to disclose their ESG performance. The parliament overwhelmingly approved the formation of the framework, which is to be implemented by the end of next year.
CDP Adopts ISSB-Created Reporting Template
CDP will integrate into its disclosures platform a newly created template that’s likely to form the basis of a global reporting standard for climate-related performance. CDP will use the IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures that’s being drawn up by the International Sustainable Standards Board. The board was created at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, last year to…
COP27 Announcements Highlight Critical Role of ESG Data
The COP27 climate summit in Egypt has put ESG data firmly in the spotlight as a key enabler of the financial sector’s critical role in solving the global sustainability challenges. From the formal unveiling of a global plan to make sustainability data accessible to every investor to the announcement of further progress in narrowing in…