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.
The European Securities and Markets Authority is shaping how environmental, social and governance ratings are used across borders, launching a public consultation on draft guidelines tied to the ESG Ratings Regulation.
A year that many sustainability leaders describe as a “storm” has done little to derail corporate decarbonization efforts, according to PwC’s third annual State of Decarbonization report, released yesterday.
The Financial Conduct Authority is asking ESG rating providers to help shape the future of regulation in the sector, launching a voluntary reporting pilot aimed at testing how forthcoming disclosure requirements might work in practice.
A new climate risk initiative in Spain is taking a more structured and forward-looking approach to a problem that has long been acknowledged but less often operationalized. How will climate changereshape the viability of marine aquaculture?
A senior official at the European Central Bank has emphasized that climate and environmental risks are now a necessary part of how the institution assesses inflation, financial stability, and the resilience of banks.
Japan’s financial regulator has set out a path for how sustainability reporting will evolve from a compliance requirement into something closer to financial reporting in both structure and scrutiny. The Financial Services Agency (FSA) on January 8 published a report and accompanying roadmap detailing how companies will be required to adopt standardized sustainability disclosures, and, crucially, how those disclosures will eventually need to be independently assured.