The Green Technical Advisory Group (GTAG), the independent expert group set up in June 2021 to advise the UK government on the design and implementation of the UK Green Taxonomy, has published two reports, one on operational considerations for taxonomy reporting and the other on the treatment of green financial products under an evolving UK … Read more

Welcome to our newly launched ESG Newsletter. There’s a lot happening in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space, and we don’t want you to get lost in the quagmire. In our newsletter, we share our latest ESG insights and identify must-know developments from the UK, EMEA and around the world. Read on for our … Read more

Businesses may soon be required to report on their nature-related financial risks and opportunities under the framework being developed by the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). The final version, due to be published in September 2023, has been set up to address the information gap between organisations’ interaction with nature and the impacts on … Read more

The UK government has been considering sustainability disclosure requirements for companies for a number of years and supported the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) by the IFRS. In its October 2021 roadmap to sustainable investing, “Greening Finance“, the UK government stated that it would explore how to adopt and endorse the disclosure standards … Read more

Welcome to our newly launched ESG Newsletter. There’s a lot happening in the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space, and we don’t want you to get lost in the quagmire. In our newsletter, we share our latest ESG insights and identify must-know developments from the UK, EMEA and around the world. Read on for our … Read more

The UK Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) expects to release the final version of its proposed climate transition plan disclosure framework in October 2023. This is according to TPT’s status update published on 27 July 2023 (Status Update). The Status Update also covers: TPT’s response to its November 2022 consultation in respect of its draft disclosure … Read more

With sustainability at the pinnacle of regulatory focus around the world, how can companies caught by the myriad of disclosure regimes maintain confidence when it comes to compliance? Particularly where there is variation in the standards themselves, is the end goal for corporates the highest common denominator? Maybe so. Corporates everywhere are under increased scrutiny … Read more

2023 has been dubbed the “Year of the Transition Plan”. From pledges to planning, markets and regulators tip the scales as they move to deliver on net-zero commitments.  As regulatory developments loom for mandatory disclosures of climate transition plans, businesses are increasingly turning their minds to what this means for them and the steps they … Read more