Daily Compliance News: August 15, 2025, The Privilege Protected Edition
FCPA Compliance Report - Episode 770 - Integrating ESG in Global Outsourcing: Insights from Inge Zwick
On Demand, On Purpose: Fashion Manufacturing That Doesn’t Cost the Earth
Daily Compliance News: July 16, 2025, The Corruption Comes to Cannes’ Edition
Understanding Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery: A Business Imperative with Clint Palermo
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Navigating Fiduciary Responsibilities in a Tide-Turning ESG Era
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 18 - The Reshaping of ESG & DEI
Compliance into the Weeds: More Compliance Challenges in the Trump Era
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 64 – Building Inclusion Through Sustainable Leadership / The EU Omnibus Proposal with Janet Ledger and Dr. Inna Amesheva
Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Sectoral Trends
Environmental and Sustainability Regulations & the New Administration
Podcast - Beyond Compliance: A Deep Dive into Carbon Markets Fraud and the Government's Response
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 17 - The Evolution of ESG Enforcement Under the SEC
Navigating ESG: Preparing for Future Regulations (Part Two) — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Regulatory Uncertainty: Benefits-Related Legal Challenges in a Post-Chevron World — Troutman Pepper Podcast
Navigating ESG: The Growing Importance and Compliance Challenges (Part One) — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 16: The Political and Legal Maze of ESG in the U.S. and Abroad
Episode 326 -- Dottie Schindlinger on Diligent's Report on Board Oversight of Cybersecurity Risks and Performance
Why ESG Matters?
JONES DAY TALKS®: ESG Reporting Rules: The SEC, CSRD, and California– Who's on the Hook?
On July 4, the European Commission adopted a new delegated regulation aimed at streamlining the implementation of the EU Taxonomy Regulation. The Taxonomy Regulation is a classification system that defines which economic...more
Two of our Islamic finance specialists Alexandra Simpson and Seyed Ahlesaadat recently attended the IFN UK Forum - Europe's longest-running Islamic finance conference. Attendees discussed how the Islamic finance industry has...more
Following a multi-firm review of sustainability reporting, the FCA has announced that it is considering how to streamline and enhance the UK’s sustainability reporting framework by simplifying disclosures, easing unnecessary...more
The UK Transition Finance Council (TFC) is consulting until September 19, 2025 on Guidelines on providing entity-level transition finance (Guidelines) to high-emitting and hard to abate sectors....more
Increasing global security concerns (coupled with changes on the global political scene) have led governments to increase their budgets for defence spending. In this briefing we consider how compatible defence sector...more
The global carbon credit market is enormous – it is valued between a range in the hundreds of billions to trillions U.S. dollars - and split between two distinct markets, compliance (regulated) and voluntary...more
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is forging ahead in implementing what the Agency now refers to as “the 200s”—the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (SB 253) and the Climate Related Financial Risk Act (SB...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance cooperation in the area of sustainable finance. The...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a letter to heads of sustainable finance on the sustainability-linked loan (SLL) market and by way of update since the FCA's previous letter on this topic in 2023. The FCA...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the findings from its multi-firm review of climate reporting by asset managers, life insurers and FCA-regulated pension providers under the Taskforce on Climate-related...more
On 16 July 2025, The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) published guidance on Governing for Net Zero: The Board’s Role in Organisational Transition...more
Last week, Danske Bank--Denmark's largest bank--announced that it would no longer invest in over 1700 fossil fuel companies due to their failure to adequately prepare for climate change. Specifically, their “investment...more
ISS has announced that it will be updating its Environmental & Social Disclosure QualityScore (ESQS) scoring methodology. ESQS covers approximately 8,000 issuers across 25 industry groups in the Americas, Europe and...more
The European Supervisory Authorities—the European Banking Authority, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority—have published an updated version of their...more
As many of our readers will remember, during summer 2023, we published a 10+-part series that examined the requirements of ESRS 1, which is the cross-cutting standard that contains the general requirements for reporting under...more
Information générale En juin 2025, un groupe d’organismes de conservation, présidé par The Nature Conservancy, a publié de nouvelles normes de pratique à adhésion volontaire pour les projets de conversion de dette, intitulé...more
The European Commission (EC) has adopted a recommendation on a voluntary sustainability reporting standard for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The recommendation serves as an interim measure ahead of a formal...more
On August 6, the UK Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") released its findings following a multi-firm review of climate reporting by asset managers, life insurers and FCA-regulated pension providers....more
The European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) has adopted its opinion on the Omnibus I package that proposes targeted amendments to key directives on corporate sustainability reporting and due...more
On 4 August 2025, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) updated the consolidated Q&As on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”) and SFDR RTS (the “SFDR RTS”). The ESAs have clarified how to interpret...more
Background In June 2025, a group of conservation organizations, chaired by The Nature Conservancy, published a new set of voluntary practice standards for debt conversion projects: the Practice Standards for Debt Conversion...more
On 4 August 2025, the European Supervisory Authorities (“the ESAs”) published updated guidance on the application of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”) by adding to their Q&A. Below, we break down the...more
This month, we’re pleased to feature our client, The Metals Company (TMC). TMC is a leading explorer of the world’s largest undeveloped resource of critical metals essential to energy, defense, manufacturing, and...more
Welcome to the latest edition of our ESG newsletter. In this issue we identify a number of key highlights from European legislative and regulatory developments as well as updates from the wider sustainable finance...more
On the 30 June 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published its final report on the 2023–2024 Common Supervisory Action (“CSA”) on the integration of sustainability risks and disclosures. This...more