ESG Today: The Sustainability Standards Board of Japan (SSBJ) announced the release of new exposure drafts for proposed standards for companies to report sustainability and climate-related information, based on the recently released sustainability disclosure standards by the IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).
Yahoo Finance: BMO Bank quietly dropped its policy restricting lending to the coal industry in late 2023, helping it avoid being labeled an energy “boycotter” in West Virginia.
Forbes: Despite warnings of a backlash against sustainability over the last couple of years, the environmental, social and governance issues that underpin the buzzword are clearly hardening into business imperatives.
ESG Today: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has paused the implementation of its recently released climate disclosure rules requiring companies to report on climate-related risks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Yahoo Finance: Two decades ago, she served as one of 12 asset managers who helped former United Nations official Paul Clements-Hunt coin the term for what’s now a $3 trillion fund sector that aims to not only reap financial returns, but also deliver positive impacts on environmental, societal and governance issues.
ESG Today: Professional services firm EY announced today the launch of a new Sustainable Finance Innovation Hub, aimed at supporting financial institutions globally in meeting their ESG regulatory and reporting requirements.
ETF Stream: BlackRock’s Larry Fink will face a vote on his dual role as chairman and CEO after UK activist investor called for more oversight over the asset manager’s approach to sustainable investing.
BNN Bloomberg: The Platform on Sustainable Finance, which advises the European Commission on environmental, social and governance policies, is proposing that flows generated through sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) be excluded from an EU exercise designed to monitor how well the bloc’s green rules are working.
BNN Bloomberg: US regulators, led by the Federal Reserve, have thwarted a push to make climate risk a focus of global financial rules, according to people familiar with the matter.
ESG Today: The vast majority of professional investors globally have put in place ESG investment policies over the past several years, with investors looking both to minimize sustainability-related risk and capitalize on opportunities.
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