Plan includes a sustainable investment taxonomy and revision of the country’s anti-greenwashing law Canada’s first climate competitiveness strategy has divided the sustainable finance community. While...

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The world is on course for 2.8C of warming, report warns Investment signals in new nationally determined contributions remain limited, finds the UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report 2025.

Climate and affordability are at the heart of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid If Zohran Mamdani wins the mayoral election in New York City this week, it will mark a rare victory for a proudly leftwing pl...

Financial institutions are waking up to the regulatory and legal risks tied to oil and gas-based methane, but few yet treat it as a serious investment factor From 2026, the EU’s Methane Regulation wil...

Maria Mendiluce is chief executive of the We Mean Business Coalition and Eva Zabey is CEO of Business for Nature Companies see the economic risks of biodiversity loss, but they need to go much furthe...

Susi Dennison is the director of the European Power programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Carla Hobbs is head of the ECFR’s Madrid office The EU and Brazil can lead efforts to bu...

Following last month’s Climate Week event, we look at the key themes that emerged and what they reveal about the state of climate policy and finance

Yrjo Koskinen is the BMO professor of sustainable and transition finance at the Haskayne School of Business and research director at the Institute for Sustainable Finance at the Smith School of Busine...

Legal experts say risks to the plastics industry are not lessened by the collapse of the global plastics treaty negotiations The legal risks faced by businesses in the global plastics supply chain are...

The oil major has secured major wins in Brussels after years of lobbying, both publicly and privately Texas-headquartered ExxonMobil has been the most active company in lobbying against the EU’s incom...

Julia Symon is head of research and advocacy and Max Kretschmer is a press officer at Finance Watch How regulators can move beyond disclosure and adopt binding measures to force systemic reform of the...

Last year in the region, only 5% of losses linked to natural disasters were insured, compared with 52% in the US The Asia-Pacific insurance market has long been under-developed compared to the US or ...

Worsening ocean acidification is the latest sign nature is under stress Humanity is pushing beyond the “limits of a stable and resilient planet”, with seven of the nine planetary boundaries already br...

Think-tank Bruegel calls on policymakers to encourage private sector action on climate resilience Concerns over scarcity and political demands to protect global supply chains from climate shocks can r...

Businesses insist that renewable energy remains the cheapest and quickest option Businesses across the US are highly focused on energy affordability, availability and speed of deployment, speakers ins...

Jargon is giving way to plainer, more business-oriented language If the late 2010s and early 2020s were characterised by the “say-do” gap — companies talking the talk on sustainability, but not necess...

Jane Thostrup Jagd is director of net zero finance at the We Mean Business Coalition The purpose of reporting is to help capital move towards more sustainable business models, not tick boxes

Sarah Perreard is co-chief executive of Earth Action Governments failed to agree to reduce plastic pollution. The burden of action is now on corporate boardrooms

Investor powers are eroded as the regulator backs corporations on voting, litigation and climate reporting A pattern is emerging at the US Securities and Exchange Commission. In a series of moves anno...

From US policy shifts to Microsoft power deals, a sector long seen as overly risky is edging back into the mainstream After decades on the sidelines, nuclear power is enjoying an unexpected revival in...

Deborah McNamara is executive director of ClimateVoice Corporate silence on climate policy puts profits and people at risk

François-Régis Puyou is a professor at Emlyon Business School Businesses are sidestepping the hard truth that growth often means higher absolute emissions

In-house teams are being reshaped as companies cut costs and shift focus from compliance to business value Regulation has historically been a key driver of corporate sustainability, shaping how compan...

Jessye Waxman is a campaign adviser for the Sierra Club’s sustainable finance campaign The choices made by financial institutions will determine whether the energy transition succeeds or stalls

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Why the EU-Mercosur trade deal is unlikely to be as sustainable as its signatories would have us believe

Catherine Spitzer is chief executive of the Environment Bank and Archie Struthers is CEO of Nattergal BNG must be maintained to ensure investors see the market as stable and investible, and guarantee ...

Andrea Ranger is director of shareholder advocacy at Trillium Asset Management Even as policymakers in Washington and Brussels backtrack on climate rules, investors are demanding more — not less — cla...

Scott Kelly is senior vice-president of environmental analytics at Risilience The move by the European Central Bank forces financial institutions to adapt or face higher funding costs

Hans Stegeman is chief economist at Triodos Bank The NZBA’s ambition was being intentionally lowered to appease the world’s biggest banks — and many still left anyway

Economic worries are directing SME thinking around decarbonisation A survey conducted by the British Standards Institution suggests British businesses are losing confidence in their ability to meet ne...

Matt Fisher is head of policy at Watershed As the Brussels debate rolls on over whether sustainability reporting is a bureaucratic burden, the UK government is making its case as a catalyst for econom...

Chaitanya Gupta is a research fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government, where he focuses on financing for climate and emerging technologies. Kartikeya Bh...

Negotiations end in a whisper, killed by divisions and poor leadership The writing was on the wall all week — finding any form of agreement on how to deal with plastics was going to be even harder tha...

Trump administration urges other IMO member states to oppose net zero framework The US administration’s decision to reject the International Maritime Organization’s net zero framework could complicate...

Almost a third of real estate investment managers with net zero commitments have excluded critical sources of emissions from their scope, finds research Investment managers in the real estate sector a...

Richard Singleton is sustainability director at Menzies LLP ESG assurance must become part of the brand marketing playbook

Fewer than 5% of companies reported on issues such as Indigenous rights and biodiversity

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Anke Boykin is senior director of global environmental policy at PepsiCo Extended producer responsibility policies have proved essential in promoting circularity for consumer packaging materials

Phil Bloomer is executive director at the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, and Tasneem Essop is executive director at Climate Action Network International The move away from fossil fuels wil...

Biodiversity net gain rollbacks could threaten habitats eight times the size of Manchester

The conflation between ‘green’ and ‘good’ is not helping investors or consumers decide which businesses are truly bad

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Analysis insist there is a ‘business case’ for reducing waste and reusing materials, but the use of circular materials is falling

As Germany hits pause on its due diligence law, companies must decide whether to scale back compliance or stay ahead of the game

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The International Court of Justice says states must protect citizens against climate change