Europe's "initial leniency" on companies reporting under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is leading to a "bare minimum mentality", writes Mauro Cozzi, co-founder and chief executive of carbon management platform Emitwise in Sustainable Views. "Those that treat CSRD solely as a box-checking exercise will face a high resource burden without any of the potential business benefits," he argues. Read more below. #CSRD #sustainabilityreporting #sustainability https://lnkd.in/eUYAnKzD
Sustainable Views
Financial Services
Saint Paul's, England 2,519 followers
A publication from the Financial Times navigating ESG policy and regulation
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Sustainable Views is the authoritative source of information on developments in ESG policy and regulation, the impact of sustainability metrics on capital markets, and the transition to a green and just economy. With thorough trend analysis, data journalism and informed comment, we provide readers with unique insights to help them mitigate risk and stay ahead of peers on the defining issue of our time. Sustainable Views helps its readers to perform their jobs more effectively. To contact us, email enquiries.sustainableviews@ft.com. To request a free trial, complete this form: https://www.sustainableviews.com/sv/request-free-trial.
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- ESG, Sustainable Investment, Responsible Finance, Responsible Investment, Sustainability, Policy, and Regulation
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The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association UKSIF calls on regulators to clarify the relationship between pension fund trustees’ fiduciary duty and their obligations on climate-related risks. “The risks around sustainability are already so clear. We want to make it crystal clear that as a normal part of their everyday work, trustees should be factoring in sustainability considerations without worrying about whether they will be sued,” says UKSIF chief executive James Alexander. Read more below. #fiduciaryduty #sustainablefiance #sustainabilityrisks https://lnkd.in/ew8tbP8g
Uncertainty persists on fiduciary duty and climate for UK trustees
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More standardisation and clear methodologies are needed to support UK farmers with "nature friendly" farming, chief executive of the Nature Friendly Farming Network and farmer Martin Lines writes in an opinion piece for Sustainable Views. "At events, I have introduced myself as an asset manager of natural capital, providing a range of goods and services society wants; people sometimes need an extra nudge to realise this is a definition of a farmer," he says. Read more below. #agriculture #naturepositive #biodiversity https://lnkd.in/e5mByGk7
Private finance needed for green farming revolution – but beware potential pitfalls
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The fashion industry accounts for around 10 per cent of global carbon emissions, according to the UN Climate Change Committee. Of these emissions, 96 per cent are Scope 3, as major brands work with a series of suppliers to produce textiles and clothing. But leading fashion brands are failing to disclose how they will support suppliers to decarbonise, non-profit Fashion Revolution finds in its latest report. Only 6 per cent of the 250 leading global fashion brands disclose renewable energy targets for their supply chains, the report says. Read more below. #sustainablefashion #scope3emissions #energytransition https://lnkd.in/e3Rux4hM
In Charts: Leading fashion brands failing to disclose energy use in supply chains
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Episode 3 of the latest series of the Sustainable Views podcast is available to listen now. Deputy editor Marie Kemplay sat down with Mindy Lubber, CEO and president of sustainability nonprofit Ceres, Inc. and Steve Howard, vice chairman, sustainability at global investment company, Temasek. The group discussed how to fund the energy transition and scale clean technologies globally. Transition investment must also focus on the global south, says Lubber. "We've got to make sure that even though there may not be as much money in those countries, investment dollars flow to the global south", she says. The latest series of the Sustainable Views podcast is in partnership with the We Mean Business Coalition. Listen below on Acast, the Sustainable Views website or wherever you get your podcasts. #energytransition #transitionfinance #decarbonisation https://lnkd.in/eF6qBsut
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The UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has a target for 600,000 heat pumps to be installed a year by 2028. In 2023, however, just 60,244 heat pumps were sold in the UK, data from the Heat Pump Association shows. Meeting the target is “a really significant challenge”, Andrew Sissons, deputy director of the sustainable future mission at UK innovation non-profit Nesta, tells Sustainable Views. The government must make a number of policy changes “really quickly,” to deliver on its heat pump goals, he says. Views also from Max Wakefield at Possible and Louise Howlett from R A Brown Heating Services Ltd and the Heating Trades Network. Read more below. #cleanheat #netzero #heatpumps https://lnkd.in/eBv8F3-H
Low heat pump uptake hindering UK boiler phaseout
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Featured in today's News In Brief, a recap of the lastest ESG policy and regulatory news: - The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF), an initiative led by financial institutions that pushes for standardised greenhouse gas accounting and reporting, has announced it has reached 500 global signatories. - The UK government has announced a rapid review of the environmental improvement plan it inherited from the previous government. The plan will focus on cleaning up waterways, reducing waste, planting trees, improving air quality and halting species decline. Read more of this week's global news below. https://lnkd.in/eHWcZZ3z #esgnews #climatenews #environmentnews
In Brief: UK government to review environmental improvement plan; FCA sustainability product labels go live
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A group of Brazilian research and policy bodies have devised a mechanism that aims to raise funds quickly to conserve tropical forests. The Tropical Forests Mechanism offers an alternative to carbon credits, as it would pay out by hectare of forest, rather than by tonnes of carbon emissions avoided or removed. Glenn Hurowitz, CEO and founder of non-profit Mighty Earth, tells Sustainable Views that on paper the TFM is a “very elegant mechanism” that “could free the great cause of nature protection from the anvil around the neck of the carbon markets”. Read more below. #deforestation #carbonmarkets #conservation https://lnkd.in/eYSuXygb
Funding mechanism pitched to ‘accelerate’ tropical forest conservation
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Unsustainable use of nature is undermining the health of our planet, people and our economic resilience. The assessment and disclosures framework and sector guidance developed by the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has the promise to be a game changer for how companies and investors engage on nature, by putting nature-related considerations at the heart of company board-level discussions and reporting. Read Aidan Davy’s analysis in the FT’s Sustainable Views, including the importance of companies adopting a double materiality approach in their assessments and disclosures: https://lnkd.in/gagBXyt2
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Companies must adopt a "double materiality approach" when reporting in line with the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures' recommendations, writes Aidan Davy, chief operating officer at the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), in Sustainable Views. Reporting on both financial risks associated with nature loss and the impacts on people and the environment will "enhance" the "pathway to a nature-positive future", he says. Read more below. #nature #TNFD #naturedisclosure https://lnkd.in/e6KmTuv7
Nature in the balance – but finally on the balance sheet
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