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Top story  UK drops mandatory climate reporting for listed companies  The UK Financial Conduct Authority has published its final rules on sustainability reporting by listed companies (policy statement PS26/19). It has dropped its earlier plan to make climate reporting mandatory.

The revised ESRS are now law. Most of the other movement this fortnight was the EU turning proposals into binding text, while the US moved the other way.  Top story  The simplified ESRS are now law  The revised European Sustainability

Top stories  US pushes the EU to exempt American companies from CSDDD and CSRD  In a five-page submission published by the US Mission to the EU, Washington said the EU’s Omnibus reforms “failed to fully address US concerns” and warned

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