Victor Smart

As the UK wonders about the new government’s future action on climate, the first report on how funds from green bonds are being spent may...

Call for G7 companies to redouble their efforts as joint Oliver Wyman and CDP study finds emissions are still far too high to achieve the...

COP15 in Montreal this December should see the signing of the global biodiversity framework, while new research notes growth in investors' interest in environmental factors...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has finally introduced rules requiring companies to disclose how top management’s pay relates to corporate performance over several years. If...

Washington has unveiled a strategy to ensure that ‘natural capital’ – the world’s stock of natural assets, such as land, water and living things, from...

Supporters say the 1250 per cent requirement will target the projects that do the most environmental damage. Advocates of proposals that would severely limit banks’...

The influential UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance wants proposals for a global baseline for climate-related disclosures tightened up, including the separate reporting of methane emissions. The NZAOA – a group...

The UK Financial Conduct Authority may take “appropriate action” against premium listed firms that have wrongly declared they have made disclosures consistent with Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommendations....

As the US Senate considers a landmark bill, providing unprecedented funding for climate change programmes, many are asking whether its significant concessions to the fossil fuel industry are a price...

The decision by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority to impose a new consumer duty on financial institutions could play a significant role in countering greenwashing, according to regulatory experts. The...

The board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions has agreed the criteria it will use to decide whether to endorse the much-awaited global baseline on sustainability disclosures, currently being finalised...