EU Seeks to Streamline ESG Regulations Amid Growing Backlash November 26, 2024 By Frances Schwartzkopff The next European Commission will urgently seek to streamline the bloc’s many environmental, social and governance rules, as it responds...
EU Regulators Call for Changes to Landmark ESG Rulebook June 19, 2024 By Frances Schwartzkopff Europe’s ESG rulebook, which is seen as the benchmark for setting sustainability-disclosure requirements worldwide, keeps getting pushback from the regulators...
Companies Walk ESG Tightrope, Under Fire From All Sides Over Disclosures February 29, 2024 By Richa Naidu and Simon Jessop Since joining Asahi Group in 2020 as sustainability chief, Preeti Srivastav has helped the Japanese brewer make several environmental and...
EU Lawmakers ‘Outraged’ After States Block Landmark ESG Law February 29, 2024 By John Ainger and Frances Schwartzkopff A European Union law designed to clean up corporate supply chains has been derailed by the bloc’s biggest member states,...
Banks, Insurers Targeted as Climate Group Seeks EU Review of Deforestation Rule February 28, 2024 By Natasha White Climate activists are putting pressure on the European Union to reconsider its decision to exclude banks from a landmark deforestation...
Europe’s Toughest ESG Rule Hits Wall of German Objections February 2, 2024 By John Ainger and Frances Schwartzkopff The European Union’s most stringent ESG rule to date may be scuppered due to eleventh-hour German opposition to the plan....
Banks, Insurers Set to Lose Reprieve From EU’s Toughest ESG Rule January 30, 2024 By Frances Schwartzkopff Financial firms in the European Union look set to be hit by a new ESG requirement that they lobbied hard...
Banks, Insurers Temporarily Dodge Full Impact of EU’s Harshest ESG Law to Date December 19, 2023 By Frances Schwartzkopff The finance industry will be shielded from the full scope of the European Union’s most consequential piece of ESG legislation...
Banks, Insurers May Escape EU’s Toughest ESG Regulation So Far November 14, 2023 By Frances Schwartzkopff Banks, asset managers and other financial firms have won a reprieve from Europe’s most consequential ESG regulation to date, as...
EU Lawmakers Back Human Rights, Environmental Checks for Big Companies April 26, 2023 By Huw Jones European Union lawmakers on Tuesday backed rules requiring thousands of large companies to identify and mitigate human rights abuses like...