Claudia De Meulemeester

The newly appointed UK prime minister, Liz Truss, has pledged to cut corporate taxes while businesses and independent organisations discuss options. The arrival of a...

The government has opened a consultation on current rules that may expand due diligence obligations as advocates warn against a 'tick-box' approach. Australia may strengthen...

ESG disclosure requirements under European legislation may have the unintended consequence of companies contesting competitors’ sustainability claims in court. As the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting...

Brazil’s supreme court recognition of the Paris Agreement as a human rights treaty grants it ‘supralegal’ status under the country’s judicial framework. After years of...

The timing of an EU ESG benchmark label should be assessed to ensure alignment with other sustainable finance legislation, says financial markets watchdog. The European...

A new energy bill will lay the foundation for the country’s first-ever carbon trading system. Earlier this month, India's prime minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet approved...

Experts warn that added delays to the inclusion of social objectives in the EU taxonomy will leave market participants with disjointed guidelines on how to define socially sustainable investments. The...

Canberra’s lower house has passed a historic bill to cut carbon emissions but this is just the tip of the iceberg of policy negotiations yet to come, climate experts say....

Varying standards in data and reporting are holding back efforts to tackle ethnicity-related pay disparity, including in financial services, says UK campaign group, ShareAction While clear standards have developed for...

The directive will introduce EU-wide quotas for board-level gender balance, but does not include targets for executive management. After a decade of stalled progress, the EU has reached a political...

Legal experts say while the ruling may inspire similar action elsewhere, it does not provide a replicable legal framework. On 19 July, the High Court of England and Wales ruled...