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  • Workforce disclosures cut down in ESRS revisions

    22 August 2025

    Mandatory S1 datapoints reduced by 53% and narrative reporting simplified across all social standards, under EFRAG proposal

  • Japan's NAP (2.0) - From awareness to action on human rights due diligence?

    20 August 2025

    WBA and BHRRC urge government to introduce regulatory requirements in second phase of National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights

  • Study finds gaps in real estate investment managers' climate transparency practices

    19 August 2025

    Most large firms not disclosing interim carbon targets, embodied emissions, or information on energy intensity, according to ShareAction analysis

  • Indonesia launches sustainability reporting standards

    13 August 2025

    ISSB-aligned disclosure requirement to take effect from 2027

  • Revised EU climate standard shifts towards IFRS S2

    12 August 2025

    Terminology and disclosures better aligned through draft simplifications to ESRS E1

  • Regulation the silver bullet on corporate lobbying transparency?

    06 August 2025

    Investors, civil society and international bodies highlight the current weaknesses in companies' climate policy advocacy disclosures, and call for a regulatory 'level playing field'

  • Inquiry pinpoints weaknesses in UK human rights due diligence regime

    01 August 2025

    Parliamentary committee calls for strengthening of reporting requirements under MSA and legislation to introduce mandatory corporate due diligence

  • EFRAG issues draft ESRS simplifications

    31 July 2025

    Proposes shortening standards by 55%

  • European Commission adopts VSME standard as recommendation

    30 July 2025

    Which will serve as the basis for future delegated act to facilitate voluntary disclosures after CSRD scope reduction

  • Applying the TNFD metrics architecture

    30 July 2025

    Early adopters NBIM and Manulife outline their approaches to assessing and disclosing key nature metrics in line with the TNFD recommendations