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Climate policy and regulation
Blog | 18 Dec 2024

Companies should take a strategic approach to policy engagement in line with societal and investor expectations

Boards must stay closely briefed on the changing climate policy landscape, giving oversight for how good governance and process around policy engagement forms part of core business strategy.

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Blog | 16 Dec 2024

Global climate policy and COP29: implications for business

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.

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Blog | 27 Sep 2023

Understand the Requirements of this First Set of European Sustainability Reporting Standards

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.

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Blog | 20 Sep 2023

Nature Disclosures will 'Become the Norm'

The final TNFD recommendations were launched at New York Climate Week 2023. Toby Roxburgh, ICAEW’s Sustainability Manager, Nature and Biodiversity, explains what this means and why it matters.

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Blog | 15 Sep 2023

EU Green Deal vs. US Inflation Reduction Act

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.

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Blog | 4 Aug 2023

European Sustainability Reporting Standards

Deloitte's blog on European Sustainability Reporting Standards: unpacking the commission’s first delegated act.

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Blog | 28 Jun 2023

Navigating the EU Taxonomy: an interview with our experts

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.

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Blog | 1 Feb 2023

Stepping Up to a New Level of ESG Reporting

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