By: Reinhilde Weidacher, Global Head of Corporate Sustainability Services, ISS-Corporate, and Olivia Windorf, Sustainability Advisor, ISS-Corporate The adoption of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) signals broad consensus on the importance of robust controls to prevent adverse impacts of business activities on people and the environment. Notwithstanding significant concessions on the ambitious proposal presented by the European Commission…
The IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) announced plans to launch new projects researching corporate disclosure on risks and opportunities in key sustainability-related areas including biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem services, and human capital, with the initiative aimed at informing its work on future sustainability reporting standard setting. According to ISSB Chair Emmanuel Faber, the new project follows market feedback…
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing giant Hon Hai Technology Group, known internationally as Foxconn, announced a new pledge to run its worldwide operations on 100% renewable electricity by 2040. The new pledge extends a commitment made by Foxconn in 2022 to use at least 50% green power by 2030. The company’s renewable energy ratio is now greater than 40%. Foxconn also announced…
France-based energy giant Total Energies and BlackRock portfolio company Vanguard Renewables announced today an agreement to create a new joint venture to develop, projects to turn food biowaste into renewable natural gas (RNG) in the U.S. RNG, or biomethane, is produced from organic waste, such as agricultural, industrial, and household wastes, and is chemically identical to fossil-based natural gas, enabling…
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator for financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, announced the launch of a consultation on a new proposal to extend its new Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR), including rules aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers. The proposal follows…
Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted 374 to 235 to adopt the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), a key piece of legislation setting mandatory obligations for companies to address their negative impacts on human rights and the environment, clearing a major hurdle towards the implementation of the new law, which came into significant doubt when an earlier version failed…
By: John McCalla-Leacy, Global Head of ESG at KPMG In 1970 a group of committed environmentalists launched a day for the world to come together and commit to positive change. Five decades on, Earth Day remains a key symbolic moment for people like me to raise awareness of the acute climate crisis facing the planet right now. Earth Day is about…