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The United States has officially exited the Paris Agreement for the second time, with the notification of withdrawal submitted by the Trump administration formally taking effect, making the US the onl…
28 Jan 2026
SBTi Services, the validation arm of the Science Based Targets initiative, has reduced the average corporate target validation time to 47 days — a reduction of more than 50% since June 2024 — followin…
22 Jan 2026
The Science Based Targets initiative has reached a milestone with the number of companies holding validated science-based climate targets surpassing 10,000, representing a nearly 40% increase from app…
22 Jan 2026
The U.S. Green Building Council updated its LEED v5 rating system to expand the Inclusive Design pathway from a US-centric model to a global framework recognizing ISO 21542. The shift creates a univer…
20 Jan 2026
The Global Reporting Initiative has appointed sustainability reporting veteran Susanne Stormer as Chair of the Global Sustainability Standards Board, the independent body responsible for developing th…
20 Jan 2026
eBay has released its first Climate Transition Plan, detailing how the global online marketplace aims to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions across its operations and value chain by 2045. The pl…
20 Jan 2026
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change notified the Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity Targets (Amendment) Rules, 2025, dated January 13, 2026, adding secondary aluminium, petroleum ref…
18 Jan 2026
An EFRAG cost-benefit analysis found that 67% of investors and financial institutions anticipate a negative impact on information quality from the proposed simplified European Sustainability Reporting…
13 Jan 2026
Sodexo secured a CDP Climate A rating in early January 2026, placing it among the top 4 percent of over 22,000 companies assessed and reflecting a 37.7 percent cut in Scope 1 and 2 emissions versus 20…
12 Jan 2026
The Philippines SEC issued Memorandum Circular 16 of 2025 on December 22, 2025, mandating ISSB-aligned PFRS S1 and S2 sustainability disclosures for listed and large non-listed entities under a tiered…
10 Jan 2026
The World Health Organization reported that people requiring trachoma interventions fell to 97.1 million by November 2025, a 94 percent reduction since 2011 and the first time below 100 million. The m…
7 Jan 2026
The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted the Philippine Financial Reporting Standards (PFRS) on Sustainability Disclosures, based on IFRS S1 and S2, establishing mandatory sustain…
6 Jan 2026
China's Ministry of Finance, alongside multiple ministries, the central bank and regulators, has released the Corporate Sustainable Disclosure Standard No. 1 — Climate (Trial), a new voluntary standar…
5 Jan 2026
The United Nations Environment Programme announced its 2024 Champions of the Earth, recognising government and organisational projects driving large-scale ecosystem restoration. The winners offer Indi…
4 Jan 2026
The Government of Kerala announced the ₹2,365 crore Kerala Climate Resilient Agri-Value Chain Modernisation (KERA) project, its largest agricultural programme in over four decades, backed by the World…
4 Jan 2026
Germanwatch's Climate Risk Index 2026, released in November 2025, ranks India ninth most affected globally over 1995–2024 from continuous extreme-weather losses. Indian corporates and policymakers fac…
2 Jan 2026
The Science Based Targets initiative reported that 96% of companies with validated science-based targets had adopted scope 3 coverage by end-2022, as total validated companies grew to over 2,300. Comb…
1 Jan 2026
The Science Based Targets initiative cautioned that global emissions bounced back to near-2019 levels by end-2021, putting the world off track to halve emissions by 2030 as required by the Paris Agree…
1 Jan 2026
The Science Based Targets initiative released its 2022 progress data dashboard, covering 2,079 organisations with science-based targets as of 31 December 2022. The dashboard allows stakeholders to exa…
1 Jan 2026
The SBTi's 2023 Monitoring Report draws on data extracted from its target dashboard as of 31 December 2023, covering 4,205 companies and financial institutions with validated science-based targets. Ma…
1 Jan 2026
The Science Based Targets initiative recorded its fastest growth year in 2021, doubling the number of companies setting and committing to set targets and tripling the rate of target validation. The SB…
1 Jan 2026
The SBTi's 2022 progress reporting review found that only 53% of companies with validated science-based targets fully disclosed progress against all their targets, despite an overall reporting rate of…
1 Jan 2026
The Science Based Targets initiative reached several governance and sectoral milestones in 2023, including the launch of its first independent Technical Council and the publication of its inaugural St…
1 Jan 2026
The Science Based Targets initiative is calling on companies and financial institutions to escalate their climate commitments by upgrading to net-zero targets and improving annual emissions disclosure…
1 Jan 2026
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