Month: August 2026

Starting this week, we include a new section on legal watch to highlight relevant ESG court cases Top story  EU packaging regulation takes effect: PFAS limits and traceability requirements now apply On 12 August, the first PPWR requirements took effect:

This fortnight, the rulebook for corporate sustainability reporting was redrawn on three fronts: EFRAG opened consultation on the last missing piece of the CSRD, California limits its Scope 3 requirements after cost concerns, and ISO and GHG Protocol agreed to

This fortnight, the EU set course for the next decade while tightening near-term rules: electrification and ETS reform looked to 2040, EUDR and CBAM implementation sharpened compliance timelines. Meanwhile, Korea and Bangladesh finalised ISSB-based mandates, moving the opposite direction from

Regulation dominated the past fortnight. Brussels pressed ahead with simplification across sustainability reporting, the taxonomy, chemicals and green claims rules, while a French court handed down a landmark verdict pulling customer emissions into corporate climate duties. Standard setters kept moving too, with

Top story EC proposes CBAM expansion to 180 downstream products  CBAM’s scope is moving in one direction: wider, and faster than many importers have planned for. The Council’s position goes beyond the Commission’s original steel and aluminium focus, pulling in