Buried inside the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority's latest review of New Zealand’s climate disclosure regime is a fairly direct message to companies that have gotten comfortable speaking in broad climate abstractions. The easy part was learning the vocabulary. The harder part is explaining, in plain terms, what actually gets damaged, where, and how badly.
There was a line in Chee Hong Tat’s speech that probably would have sounded strange to anyone expecting the usual polished climate conference choreography.
New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority has released updated guidance aimed at giving issuers clearer direction on how to disclose and communicate financial products with sustainability-related characteristics.
In a statement released Tuesday, ESMA published the results of a Common Supervisory Action examining how investment firms and credit institutions have integrated sustainability considerations into suitability assessments and product governance frameworks under MiFID II. The review, conducted alongside national competent authorities throughout 2024 and 2025, paints a picture of an industry still working through the practical realities of embedding ESG preferences into investment advice.
The European Commission is moving to scale back the complexity of the EU’s sustainability reporting regime, unveiling proposed revisions to the European Sustainability Reporting Standards that officials say will sharply reduce compliance burdens for businesses without dismantling the broader goals of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
The European Commission is trying to smooth the runway for its deforestation regulation before it begins applying at the end of the year, publishing a new simplification package meant to give companies, EU countries and trading partners more certainty over how the rules will work in practice.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is sharpening its focus on climate risk and sustainable finance, laying out a 2026 agenda that blends tighter supervision with a broader effort to position Hong Kong at the center of the region’s green transition.