Jan 28, 2022
At the beginning of January 2022, a key element of the EU’s sustainable finance policy came into effect — the green taxonomy, a kind of dictionary of sustainable activities. Investors must now disclose how their funds meet taxonomy climate-related requirements, while large companies need to report on how much...
Jan 21, 2022
In 2021, the world saw many major climate-related disasters ranging from wildfires, to flooding and hurricanes.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, recently released its annual climate trends report, providing an important snapshot of the physical risks from climate change in the U.S. The...
Jan 18, 2022
The EU proposed a carbon border adjustment mechanism in 2021 as part of a broad climate package designed to reduce carbon emissions by 55% from 1990 levels by 2030. This mechanism — widely known as ‘CBAM' — would put a tariff on imports of carbon-intensive goods.
The proposed regulation aims to prevent EU-based...
Jan 7, 2022
To welcome the New Year, we hear from experts across the ESG world about what sustainability trends they are watching in 2022.
Our guests in this episode of ESG Insider include Curtis Ravenel, who is Secretariat for the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures and senior adviser to former Bank of...