Follow ESG News on Linkedin After 40 years in sustainability, I’ve seen the ebb and flow of government action through many election cycles. Yet, as scientific understanding and public awareness of...
Follow ESG News on Linkedin On Monday, COP16 – the United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity – kicked off in Cali,...
Follow ESG News on LinkedIn This week, the EU and the US seemed to swap roles as California advanced its climate disclosure law, maintaining the 2026 reporting deadline for large...
Follow ESG News on LinkedIn The world’s climate experts, influencers, and changemakers descended on New York City for this year’s largest climate event. With more than 100,000 attendees and 600+...
For more from Tim Mohin, sign up for his newsletter here The SEC’s beleaguered ESG agenda took another hit this week as their Enforcement Division’s Climate & ESG Task Force, set up...
For more from Tim Mohin, sign up for his newsletter here To say the SEC’s Climate Rule has gone through the wringer would be an understatement. The policy has faced fierce...
For more from Tim Mohin, sign up for his newsletter here Kamala Harris has a long history of supporting climate policy. This week’s announcement of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate further...
For more from Tim Mohin, sign up for his newsletter here While there are still many questions about how all of these policies will work and interact, the time for implementation...
For more from Tim Mohin, sign up for his newsletter here An unprecedented political tsunami hit on Sunday when President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. In just a few days,...
For more from Tim Mohin, sign up for his newsletter here Last week, we shared how the implementation of California’s climate laws is likely to be delayed for two years. This week, research...
For more from Tim Mohin, sign up for his newsletter here Governor Gavin Newsom proposed amendments to California climate laws SB 253 and 261 that would postpone implementation by two years and give the...
It seems that the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) makes a new announcement about ‘harmonizing’ corporate sustainability reporting every other week. This week, there was an update on the strengthening...
After the rightward turn in Europe’s elections last week, few people thought that the EU would continue its streak of leadership sustainability policies. In a surprise move, the environment ministers...
Over the last few years, Europe’s “green deal” produced a plethora of sustainability policies. It seemed like every week, we reported on a new, far-reaching, world-leading sustainability regulation. Now that...
Almost a year after the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) released its first two standards, they announced this week that more than half of the world’s economy has adopted them....
As the world’s largest trading bloc, the EU uses its considerablepurchasing power to meet its ambitious sustainability goals. In doing so, the EU’s new rules will reach well beyond its...
The US has issued a raft of new climate policies in recent months as the Biden administration attempts to shield progress against any future government backtracking. This week alone, the EPA finalized a rule...
After a green voting marathon, the EU Parliament closed its final plenary of this term before its June elections. The huge voting sessions yielded a plethora of new policies, including...
Last-minute deals and a series of failed votes threatened to block the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD – also known as the CS3D), but a weakened version squeaked...
In the coming months, half of the world’s population will go to the polls. To say there is a lot at stake would be putting it mildly. Climate advocates are...