Climate solutions provider Patch announced the launch of a new platform offering companies with software, data and expertise to streamline purchasing and management of carbon credits. According to Patch, the new platform is aimed at addressing a series of key challenges that are keeping the voluntary carbon market (VCM) from reaching its potential, including market fragmentation, with buyers required to…

The IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) announced today a series of proposed changes to its climate-related disclosure standard, aimed at easing some requirements for companies related to reporting on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While the changes would affect a wide range of companies reporting on climate-related issues under the standard, the amendments would most significantly impact requirements for…

Leaders from across industry, healthcare and the legal profession have formed the first-ever independent Menopause Advisory Group, the government has announced. Convened by the government’s Menopause Employment Ambassador, Mariella Frostrup, the group discussed the impact menopause can have on workers, current efforts to support women in work and how businesses can work in partnership with the government to ensure women…

The government of France presented a new “Charter for Paris-aligned and high integrity use of carbon credits,” launching a pledge for companies to follow in using carbon credits to help reach their climate goals, aimed at supporting the development of a more transparent and credible international carbon market. The charter, announced by French Minister of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity, Forests, the…

EU banking supervisor The European Banking Authority (EBA) announced the release of a new ESG dashboard, containing key indicators enabling benchmarking and monitoring of climate-related risks in the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) banking sector. Based on information disclosed by banks as part of their Pillar 3 ESG disclosures, the new dashboard covers climate risk from both a transition…

This week in ESG news: Goldman Sachs shareholders overwhelmingly reject anti-DEI proposals; Canada hits pause on corporate climate reporting requirements; Apple slashes product manufacturing emissions; LEGO Group opens its most sustainable factory; Musk-backed competition awards $100 million to climate removal startups; Microsoft signs large-scale deal to remove carbon by reforesting mine lands; EcoVadis launches workforce human rights monitoring solution; CDP…