On January 1, 2024, the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive came into force. But what is it, and what do you need to know about it? 

In spite of the new Consumer Duty guidelines, banks are still struggling to meet customers’ needs and are not working hard enough to protect their finances in the midst of a cost of living crisis. What can firms do to change that?

Increasing weather-related disasters and climate disruption may be a given, but financial exclusion of migrants from climate change does not have to follow if governments and financial service providers take action now to protect against financial abuses. 

Informing an urgent need for action: what’s the financial exposure of company assets to physical climate risks?

How can financial authorities protect the value that underpins all human activity, nature? Dorothy Maseke, head of the African Natural Capital Alliance, outlines how Africa is rolling out nature-related disclosures. 

Nature and biodiversity are more difficult to ‘solve for’ than climate, says the EBRD, as it unveils its nature strategy.

With the rise of the sustainable consumer offering banks the opportunity to serve customers in a different way, Mashreq announces a MENA-first climate banking platform.

Indonesia’s ambitious plans for its new capital, Nusantara, are underway, yet there remains uncertainty of whether the president’s ambitious vision will be realised as there are questions over its green credentials and how the city will be financed.

Financial crises and wars are taking world leaders’ focus away from climate action, but the younger generation of activists are up to the challenge of putting it back on the global agenda.

The UK’s anti-greenwashing regime has been strengthened as part of the Financial Conduct Authority’s new Sustainability Disclosure Requirements.