ESG Regulation

Insurance Europe

Insurance Europe Issued Opinions on Greenwashing

The Insurance Europe (European Insurance and Reinsurance Federation) issued a report in response to the previous three European regulators’ inquiries on the issue of greenwashing. Insurance Europe said that insurance companies have taken actions against sustainable

ECB Climate Indicators

ECB Released Climate-related Statistical Indicators

The European Central Bank and the central banks of member countries recently released climate-related statistical indicators to consider climate risk in the implementation of monetary policy and the development of the financial system. The European

ESG Greenwashing Problem

ICMA Put Forward Suggestions on ESG Greenwashing

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) recently issued a document in response to the solicitation of opinions from European regulators on ESG greenwashing and put forward new views on the definition of greenwashing, the

EU

EU Plans to Set Up an 8-Year Social Climate Fund

Recently, the European Union said that it would consider setting up a social climate fund to establish a new carbon emission trading system and provide funds for member countries to improve carbon emissions. The EU’s goal is to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

COP15

COP15 Reached Convention on Biological Diversity

COP15 Conference, the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, is divided into two stages: the first stage was held by China in October 2021, and the second stage was held by Canada

Due to the rapid development of the ESG industry, the regulatory authorities are also solving some problems that follow, such as the naming rules of ESG funds, the ESG disclosure rules for listed companies, and consumer protection after the adoption of ESG policies. Although the short-term regulatory policies will have an impact on the development of ESG, in the long run, sound regulatory measures will promote the company to complete the ESG transformation more efficiently.

Through tracking and sorting out the ESG regulatory policies of various countries, the ESG regulatory policies have the following characteristics:

1. The regulatory authorities involved in ESG’s regulatory policies are relatively complex. There are not only legislative departments that issue mandatory policies, but also some associations that provide voluntary guidance. At the same time, some new ESG collectives are still being established;

2. The content framework of ESG regulatory policy is gradually increasing. As the supervision needs to be directly implemented into the daily business activities of enterprises and financial institutions, the supervision policies also need to be gradually detailed, and the specific contents involved are constantly increasing;

3. Although ESG regulatory policies differ from country to country, the overall development direction remains the same. When implementing ESG supervision, national regulators will take their own development into account, but still comply with internationally consistent standards as a whole;

This website provides readers with the latest regulatory contents of ESG from regulators around the world. Understanding these contents can provide readers with more complete knowledge of ESG regulation and see the development path of ESG regulation in different countries. For practitioners in the ESG industry, this website can also trace the existing regulatory policies of ESG in the past and compare the ESG regulation in different countries.