The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has published the next phase of its sustainable finance taxonomy, expanding the framework to include transition activities for high-emitting sectors.
The Joint Bank Reporting Committee (JBRC) kicked off the year with the release of its 2026 Work Programme on 19 January, outlining a continued push for more streamlined, consistent reporting across Europe’s banking sector.
This week, XBRL International’s Revathy Ramanan kicks off a new blog series exploring how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used to analyse narrative disclosures in structured reports using XBRL data.
In early January, the European Supervisory Authorities, the European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), published joint guidelines on environmental, social and governance (ESG) stress testing for national banking and insurance supervisors.
In late December, the Chinese Ministry of Finance (MoF) quietly took a big step in the global climate reporting race, issuing Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Standard No. 1, Climate (Trial), a framework it says is generally aligned with IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures.
Philippine companies have been told, politely but firmly, that sustainability reporting is no longer a nice to have. In December, the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Philippine Financial Reporting Standards (PFRS) S1 and PFRS S2 and approved Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, plus a phased roadmap for publicly listed companies and large non listed entities.
As climate disclosure starts to move from board slides to real reporting, the International Sustainability Standards Board has gone back to IFRS S2 with a scalpel. Yesterday it issued targeted amendments to the greenhouse gas emissions requirements, aiming to ease some early application headaches without unpicking the overall architecture.
Financed and insurance linked emissions have long had a habit of slipping through the cracks, particularly in the more complex corners of the financial world. The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) is now tightening its guidance, substantial expansion of its Global Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting Standard for the Financial Industry.
A recent SCC Online article by Arin Chatterjee takes stock of how environmental, social and governance expectations have been built into Indian corporate governance. Rather than relying on a single ESG statute, India is developing a hybrid regime that combines company law, securities regulation, market practice and an increasingly active judiciary.
On 7 November, the European Commission launched a fresh call for evidence on amendments to the Climate and Environmental Delegated Acts under the EU Taxonomy Regulation. The consultation, which closes today, seeks stakeholder views on how to improve the technical screening criteria that determine which economic activities qualify as environmentally sustainable.
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