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- Standards & Frameworks
EFRAG Cuts ESRS Data Points by Over 70% in Simplified Revision
The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) has released a finalized proposed revision of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) that reduces mandatory data points by 61% a…
- Sustainable Finance
STX Group Launches Corporate EAC Procurement and Management Platform
Environmental commodities trading firm STX Group has launched STX Climate Tech, a digital platform enabling companies to centralise the procurement, tracking and retirement of Energy Attribute Certifi…
- Standards & Frameworks
PCAF Releases Updated GHG Standard Covering New Financial Instruments
The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) has launched an updated Global Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry, adding new methodologies to cover a …
- Climate & Nature
Unmanaged Scope 3 Emissions Could Expose Companies to $500 Billion in Liabilities
Research cited by EcoVadis Climate Ambassador Dexter Galvin shows that companies ignoring supply-chain emissions could face more than $500 billion in annual liabilities by 2030, yet fewer than one in …
- Climate & Nature
MoEFCC clarifies Environmental Clearance exemption scope for non-CTE projects
On November 25 2025, India's MoEFCC issued an Office Memorandum clarifying that its Standard Operating Procedure requiring SPCB/PCC comments before Environmental Clearance applies only to projects tha…
- Disclosure Analytics
GRI develops monetary flow reporting standard updating GRI 201
The Global Reporting Initiative is developing a new standard for tracking corporate monetary flows, updating the existing GRI 201 Economic Performance Standard, with a public comment period running un…
- Climate & Nature
Australia passes Environment Protection Reform Bill amending EPBC Act
The Australian Parliament passed the Albanese Government's Environment Protection Reform Bill, amending the EPBC Act, creating a National Environment Protection Agency and mandating emissions disclosu…
- Climate & Nature
Brookfield Acquires Southeast Asia Renewable Energy Platform Alba Renewables
Brookfield Asset Management has acquired Singapore-based Alba Renewables and a 100 MW wind project in Vietnam, marking its first renewable energy investments across the Philippines, Vietnam and Thaila…
- Climate & Nature
NYC Comptroller Recommends Dropping BlackRock Over Decarbonisation Failures
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has recommended that the city's pension funds terminate a $42 billion investment mandate with BlackRock, as well as mandates with Fidelity and PanAgora, after the…
- Standards & Frameworks
Ninth Circuit halts California SB 261 climate disclosure enforcement
On November 18 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an injunction halting CARB's enforcement of California SB 261, removing the January 1 2026 climate-risk reporting deadline, while SB 253 …
- Standards & Frameworks
UK FRC issues ISSA (UK) 5000 sustainability assurance standard
The UK's Financial Reporting Council issued ISSA (UK) 5000, the country's first comprehensive sustainability assurance standard, effective for engagements on information for periods beginning on or af…
- Regulations
EU Ombudsman Finds Commission Ran Flawed Process in Preparing Sustainability Reporting Cuts
EU Ombudsman Teresa Anjinho has found that the European Commission committed maladministration in preparing its Omnibus initiative to reduce corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requir…
- Climate & Nature
WEF urges integrated city action for nature-positive outcomes
The World Economic Forum's Nature-Positive Cities initiative calls for coordinated urban action on climate and biodiversity loss, citing a 73% decline in global wildlife populations over fifty years a…
- Climate & Nature
OECD report urges policy integration for triple planetary crisis
The OECD's Environmental Outlook on the Triple Planetary Crisis calls for integrated policy across climate, biodiversity, pollution and resource pressures, projecting climate change will surpass land-…
- Climate & Nature
Rwanda's TREPA project targets 60,000 hectares with gender-responsive restoration
Rwanda's six-year Transforming Eastern Province through Adaptation project, funded by the Green Climate Fund and led by IUCN, aims to restore 60,000 hectares of drought-degraded land using a gender-re…
- Climate & Nature
Telangana targets net-zero by 2047, India's first net-zero state goal
Telangana set a goal to become India's first Net-Zero State by 2047 under its 'Telangana Rising 2047' vision, targeting 40 GW of renewable capacity by 2035 and a 95% cut in oil demand. The blueprint u…
- Climate & Nature
Morningstar Sustainalytics Names Jodie Tapscott as Head of Climate and Nature Solutions
ESG research and ratings provider Morningstar Sustainalytics has appointed Jodie Tapscott as head of climate and nature solutions, with responsibility for leading the company's climate and nature prod…
- Climate & Nature
Four multilateral climate funds release first joint results report
In November 2025, the Adaptation Fund, Climate Investment Funds, Global Environment Facility and Green Climate Fund released their first Joint Results Report, covering 2,287 projects, US$34 billion in…
- Climate & Nature
World Bank warns of 324 billion cubic meters annual freshwater loss
The World Bank Group's first Global Water Monitoring Report, Continental Drying, reports the world loses an estimated 324 billion cubic meters of freshwater annually, with reserves down 3% of annual s…
- Sustainable Finance
ICVCM Reports Wider Government Alignment on Carbon Market Integrity at COP30
Eleven governments publicly endorsed shared principles for high-integrity carbon market use at COP30 in Belém, signalling a significant step toward global alignment on voluntary carbon market standard…
- Regulations
India implements four Labour Codes effective November 21 2025
The Government of India implemented its four Labour Codes effective November 21 2025, rationalising 29 existing labour laws and extending statutory social security to gig and platform workers. Indian …
- Sustainable Finance
Germany pledges €1 billion over decade to Brazil's forest facility
Germany committed €1 billion (about $1.15 billion) over ten years to Brazil's Tropical Forest Forever Facility, a rules-based mechanism paying countries for intact forest cover and fining deforestatio…
- Climate & Nature
COP 30 in Belém ends without fossil fuel transition roadmap
COP 30 concluded in Belém, Brazil, without adopting a roadmap for transitioning away from fossil fuels despite over eighty countries backing it, while launching the Tropical Forests Forever Facility t…
- Standards & Frameworks
GHG Protocol advances Actions and Market Instruments reporting framework
The GHG Protocol updated its Actions and Market Instruments workstream, developing a multi-statement reporting framework for emissions impacts outside the traditional Scope 1, 2 and 3 inventory, with …