Archive

  • Starbucks shareholders reject anti-union resolution

    18 March 2025

    Proposal requesting a report on the human rights risks posed by workers' unions voted down by 99% investors

  • Allianz sees strategic value in CSRD reporting

    17 March 2025

    After publishing first report under reasonable assurance

  • Big wins for the Big Four, but which auditor has picked up the most CSRD mandates so far?

    14 March 2025

    Suggestion of even greater consolidation than with financial audits

  • US SEC cracks down on sustainability-driven shareholder resolutions

    12 March 2025

    Investors criticise regulator for revising policy for approving requests to exclude ESG-related proposals

  • EPP faces political dilemma on omnibus

    11 March 2025

    Right-leaning parties call for further deregulation, whilst left criticises the scale and timeline of the Commission's simplification proposals

  • Heineken brews up first ESRS disclosures

    06 March 2025

    Sonia Thimmiah, senior director of global sustainability, outlines how the company updated its sustainability reporting process to meet the requirements of the CSRD

  • Audit firms grappling with sustainability assurance teething problems

    04 March 2025

    Audit professionals highlight inherent challenges of engaging with non-financial information as they look ahead to the potential implementation of ISSA 5000

  • Shareholders reject proposal to dismantle Apple's diversity policies

    28 February 2025

    With Costco and John Deere also rejecting anti-DEI disclosure resolutions

  • EUs omnibus: simplification, deregulation.... Or just plain "uncertainty" and "clusterfuck"

    26 February 2025

    Months of gossips culminates with little certainty for desperate EU preparers

  • The Omnibus arrives

    26 February 2025

    European Commission sets out proposals to amend corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements