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UK Proposes New Climate-related Disclosure Rules for Standard Listed Companies
July 28, 2021
In 2020, the UK government began it’s mission towards mandatory climate-related disclosures, publishing a roadmap to align with the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and recently has taken it a step further with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) proposing to extend this regime to all issuers of standard listed equity shares.
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JD Supra Blog: Is Tax Transparency the New ESG Disclosure Demand?
July 21, 2021
Cooley LLP in the JD Supra Blog analyses an article published in Bloomberg reporting that tax transparency has become a growing “under-the-radar” element of ESG disclosure and explores the debate between investors on the subject.
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Twitter Takes Action on Record Number of Accounts for Hate Speech
July 19, 2021
During the second half of 2020, Twitter Inc., in an effort to take action on their expansion of Hate Speech rules, penalized 1,126,990 different accounts, a 77% increase in a six month period, for violating the company’s hate speech policies.
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JD Supra: Hogan Lowells explains ESG
July 19, 2021
In an article posted on JD Supra, Hogan Lowells explains Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) standards in detail including its history, potential for sustainability, as well as short and long term effects of its influence on business.
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Jack M. Mintz: ESG Rankings are Not Reliable
July 14, 2021
Jack M. Mintz writes in the Financial Post that Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) guidelines cannot be standardized to help make investment decisions due to the fact that most component measures too subjective and goes on to warn that many companies “greenwash” their ESG results to make themselves look better.
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