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Canada Sets Green Investment Rules; UK Regulator Probes WH Smith; Louvre Workers Call Off Strike;Trump Allies Clash With Fannie, Freddie Staff.

Business

A New Rulebook for Green Capital: Canada

December 19, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates Canada Sets Green Investment Rules: Canada will introduce a sustainable investment taxonomy by 2026 to label green ...

AI & MACHINE LEARNING

Can Government Efforts to Regulate AI in the Workplace Make a Difference?

byRichard Seifman - Former World Bank Senior Health Advisor and U.S. Senior Foreign Service Officer

December 18, 2025

An overview of AI regulations and laws around the world designed to ensure that the technology benefits individuals and society, ...

Politics & Foreign Affairs

Unexpected Consequences of Investment Treaties in Times of War

byInternational Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

December 11, 2025

Russian state entities are threatening to use the 1989 Belgium-Luxembourg (BLEU)–USSR bilateral investment treaty (BIT) to sue Belgium over the ...

ESG news regarding Deforestation Mandate Being Pushed; EUs Acceleration on Hydrogen and Net Zero Revolution; AT&T Will End All DEI; UK Watchdog Blocks Nike and Lacoste Ads Over Green Claims.

Business

U-Turn in Europe: Deforestation Mandate Pushed Back Again

byEge Can Alparslan

December 5, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates EU Lawmakers Agree to Delay Deforestation Rules: The EU has delayed and simplified its Deforestation Regulation until ...

Business

European Financial Reporting Advisory Group Releases Simplified Reporting Standards Draft

byAriq Haidar

December 5, 2025

This Week’s Regulatory Updates: EFRAG releases simplified European sustainability reporting standards: EFRAG claims it will increase competitiveness and reduce the ...

ESG News regarding the UK’s Updated Environmental Improvement Plan, modernizing Mauritania’s railway system, the EU carbon border tax, and the EU’s cross-border energy projects

Business

UK Unveils Updated Environmental Improvement Plan

bySarah Perras

December 1, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates UK Accelerates Nature Recovery: The government commits £500m to Landscape Recovery and targets 250,000 hectares of restored ...

ESG news regarding weakened EU sustainability laws, new metal-fuel funding, legal challenges to California climate rules, and Germany scaling back gas capacity plans.

Business

Europe Retreats: Lawmakers Slash Corporate Climate Obligations

byEge Can Alparslan

November 14, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates EU Weakens Sustainability Law: EU lawmakers scaled back the CSDDD, narrowing its scope to only large companies ...

ESG News regarding: only 16% of companies on track to hit net zero targets by 2050 per Accenture report, Orsted completes green transformation, EU and UK to begin carbon market link negotiations, China to expand renewable energy sector

Business

Only 16% of Large Companies on Track for Net Zero

bySarah Perras

November 12, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates Accenture Report Highlights Net Zero: While 89% of the world’s largest companies link decarbonization to business value, ...

ESG news regarding U.S. absence from the COP30 climate summit, Europe’s role in the U.S. absence, new euro zone loan pricing, and countries suffering from global warming speak at COP30

Business

COP30 Without the U.S.

bySarah Perras

November 10, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates Global Climate Talks Proceed Without U.S. Leadership: Lack of U.S. representatives at the UN’s COP30 talks in ...

Sustainable EU Tourism - Shaping the Tourism of Tomorrow

Circular Economy

Tourism at a Crossroads: Europe’s Path to Sustainability and Resilience

byIntellera – Part of Accenture

November 7, 2025

Tourism is among Europe’s most dynamic and prominent industries, stimulating local economies, generating jobs, and promoting cultural exchange. However, it ...