ESG

Spain’s financial and audit regulators are trying to bring some stability to the sustainability reporting landscape as the clock ticks toward the 2025 reporting cycle. This week, the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) and the Institute of Accounting and Auditing (ICAC) issued a joint statement outlining how Spanish companies should approach their disclosures while the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is still in the process of being transposed into national law.

A coalition of companies, non-governmental organizations, and multi-stakeholder groups from the food, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber and timber sectors is calling on the European Commission to proceed with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) as scheduled. The group is reiterating its position that there should be no “stop-the-clock” mechanism, simplification review clause, or one-year delay to the regulation’s implementation.

California’s sweeping new climate-reporting requirements are headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, as some of the country’s most influential business groups push for an emergency halt before the rules take effect.

The European Parliament has taken a big step toward scaling back the EU’s corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence regime, voting on Thursday to streamline the rules and significantly narrow the number of companies that will need to comply.

The UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued a new sustainability assurance standard, International Standard on Sustainability Assurance (UK) 5000 or ISSA (UK) 5000, marking a significant milestone in the country’s push for more credible, high-quality sustainability reporting.

The European Central Bank has ordered Spanish lender ABANCA to pay €187,650 after the bank failed to complete a required assessment of its climate-related and environmental risks within the deadline set by supervisors.

A group of 21 European airlines has agreed to overhaul how they market the environmental impact of air travel, after EU consumer protection authorities found that some of their claims could mislead passengers about what paying extra for “green” flight options actually achieves.