ESG / SUSTAINABILITY

ESG / Sustainability

HKMA Issues New Guide for Banks on Greentech Adoption

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 19/02/2025

The HKMA is urging banks to review the new practice guide and consider how greentech can be integrated into their operations.

ESG / Sustainability

TNFD Launches Two New Capacity-building Tools

By ESG Investor | 19/02/2025

By releasing the tools, the TNFD aims to respond to skill shortages on nature-related issues.

ESG / Sustainability

Korea to Revise Fund Manager Guidelines on Exercise of Voting Rights

By Thisanka Siripala | 18/02/2025

The FSS and KOFIA aim to incorporate international best practices in the guidelines, which were last updated in 2016.

ESG / Sustainability

New Zealand Issues Guidance on GHG Assurance Reports

By Thisanka Siripala | 17/02/2025

The guidance clarifies that only the GHG emissions disclosures within CREs’ climate statements are mandated for assurance by 31 Dec 2025.

ESG / Sustainability

ACMF Starts Work on New Action Plan for ASEAN Capital Markets

By Nithya Subramanian | 17/02/2025

The action plan, to be released by the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum in October 2025, will serve as a five-year roadmap to advance ASEAN capital markets.

ESG / Sustainability

SBTi Proposes Revision of Corporate Net Zero Standard

By ESG Investor | 14/02/2025

The revisions aim to ensure the Corporate Net Zero Standard works better for businesses and accelerates climate action.

ESG / Sustainability

US SEC Expected to Roll Back Climate-Related Disclosure Rule

By Nithya Subramanian | 13/02/2025

Acting SEC Chairman Mark Uyeda called it “deeply flawed” and warned that it could inflict “significant harm” on the capital markets and the economy.

ESG / Sustainability

OCC Becomes Latest US Regulator to Withdraw from NGFS

By Thisanka Siripala | 13/02/2025

The OCC’s withdrawal from the NGFS follows similar moves by the US Treasury, Federal Reserve and FDIC.

ESG / Sustainability

Bangladesh Updates Guidelines on Environmental and Social Risk

By Nithya Subramanian | 12/02/2025

Banks will have to conduct deeper due diligence for financing infrastructure projects, assessing carbon emissions, biodiversity impact, and community displacement.