The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted rules to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures by public companies and in public offerings. The final rules reflect the Commission’s efforts to respond to investors’ demand for more consistent, comparable, and reliable information about the financial effects of climate-related… Read More »SEC Sets New Standard with Climate Disclosure Rules for Public Companies
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The European Parliament announced that it has aimed at restoring and protecting natural habitats and ecosystems, including a mandated target for EU countries to implement measures to restore at least 20% of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030, and for all ecosystems in… Read More »EU Parliament Adopts Nature Restoration law, Overcoming last-Minute Objections
The Central Consumer Protection Authority of India released the draft “Guidelines for Protection of Consumers against Greenwashing” on February 20, 2024, in accordance with the Consumer Protection Act of 2019, and it is open for public feedback for 30 days from that date onwards. The… Read More »India Drafts Guidelines Against Greenwashing
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today the approval of its long-awaited climate-related disclosure rules for U.S. public companies, requiring companies for the first time to provide information in annual reports and registration statements on climate risks facing their businesses, plans to address… Read More »SEC Approves Scaled-Back Climate Disclosure Rules
New guidelines on Scope 3 embodied carbon measurement and reporting have been released by the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) for built environment stakeholders. A company’s indirect embodied carbon emissions make up between 80 and 95 percent of its whole value chain footprint. This is… Read More »Empowering Sustainability: UKGBC’s Latest Guidance on Embodied Carbon Emissions Reporting Sets Stage for Stricter Carbon Reduction Strategies
According to market circumstances, the Canadian government is announcing that it would issue its second green bond denominated in Canadian dollars. This comes after the first $5 billion, 7.5-year green bond issued in Canada was successfully issued in March 2022. The first Green Bond issue… Read More »Canada Issuing Nuclear Energy-Related Innovative Green Bonds
In an effort to combat the growing amount of packaging waste in the EU and advance the circular economy, legislators in the European Parliament and Council have reached a provisional agreement on a new set of sustainable packaging regulations. One of the goals of this… Read More »EU Lawmakers Agree to New Law Targeting 100% Recyclable Packaging by 2030
The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers released a draft resolution on February 16, 2024, with the goal of raising the bar for chemical product safety regulations. “On the Approval of the Technical Regulations for the Classification of Hazards, Labelling, and Packaging of Chemical Products,” is the… Read More »Ukraine Improves Chemical Safety: Draft Resolution Reveals GHS Implementation
On February 12, the State Administration for Market Regulation of China notified a draft of a mandatory national standard (GB) entitled “Household and similar electrical appliances – Energy saving and environmental protection specification” to the WTO and started collecting comments. The deadline for submitting comments… Read More »China notifies WTO of draft GB on recyclability calculation requirements for household appliances
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