EU & international climate policy, finance, and frameworks

As large businesses and financial institutions prepare to disclose their taxonomy eligible and aligned activities for 2023, what have been some core challenges from the most recent reporting year, and how can organisations and financial institutions ensure better alignment? Carbon Trust policy and finance experts, Carolina and Noor, reflect.

KPMG's blog which assesses global companies’ readiness for the EU’s new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive shows large and significant gaps.

In 2024-25, Chapter Zero has partnered with McKinsey for a three-part event series that explores the impact non-executive directors (NEDs) can have on helping to accelerate their organisations’ net zero transition. The second session, held on 3rd December, analysed the international climate policy landscape following COP29 and surfaced key insights for the boardroom.

Read the summary from Chapter Zero and the Deloitte Academy's webinar exploring the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), an EU regulation that requires sustainability information to be reported alongside financial information and subject to assurance.

Looking ahead after the COP28 climate conference, what are the key takeaways for NEDs?

Watch Chapter Zero and the Deloitte Academy explore the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), an EU regulation that requires sustainability information to be reported alongside financial information and subject to assurance.

This briefing, produced by the Climate Governance Initiative, explores and discusses the context of the proposed SEC climate disclosure rule, the current status and likely next steps, and provides key questions for board directors to ask their boards in relation to it.

Climate COPs, biodiversity COPs and even desertification COPs have brought governments together; they have also given the planet a seat at the table. But let’s not forget that these occasions also drive private sector action, says Chapter Zero Senior Advisor Matt Scott.

This article from the Climate Governance Initiative, written 5 September 2024, provides an overview of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) climate disclosure rule.

Mark Vaessen, KPMG Partner in The Netherlands, looks at key features of the final European Sustainability Reporting Standards and interoperability with international standard-settings initiatives. From FY24, companies will be required to provide granular sustainability information.

In this blog, André Guedel and Olivier Eichenberger, KPMG Switzerland, explore the different types of incentives for innovation, sustainable industrialization and decarbonization in the EU and the USA.

Watch Chapter Zero and the Deloitte Academy explore the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), an EU regulation that requires sustainability information to be reported alongside financial information and subject to assurance.