Frances Schwartzkopff

Unlike the U.S., where the federal government can offer tax breaks, EU taxation rests with member states, leaving the bloc to work largely through loans and grants.

Tens of thousands of companies operating in Europe face new requirements to report their operations' climate impact.

Danish prosecutors allege Shah oversaw a trading scam using a loophole on dividend payouts to reap duplicate tax refunds.

Almost half of North America's biggest institutional and wholesale investors worry they'll face legal consequences if they consider environmental and social factors, as the political backlash against ESG broadens.

IOSCO has suggested it would be unreasonable to penalize companies that aren't immediately able to get the data they need to report their complete carbon footprints.

Firms often use questionable accounting techniques to support their emissions claims.

Shah was named as the mastermind of the scheme in which pension plans filed for tax returns to which they weren't entitled, because they never paid the taxes to begin with.

A number of sustainable investing champions say it's time for the "ESG" label to be shelved and replaced by something less likely to draw attacks from both the political right and left.

Sustainability advocates and accountants say the ISSB’s proposals fall short of what’s needed to protect the environment.

The software giant, a staple of ESG investment funds, is being called out by a group of shareholders for what they say is its poor track record on tax transparency.

There’s a standoff brewing between European lawmakers and the Big Four as they try to lay claim to an ESG market that may generate fees of as much as $8 billion a year.

A boom in ESG debt has created some accounting concerns that need of regulatory attention, according to Europe’s markets watchdog.

Global organizations that set corporate reporting standards failed to keep pace with the ESG boom, opening the door to greenwashing, mispricing and bubbles, according to one such group.

A second hedge-fund trader was named by Danish prosecutors as a defendant in a dividend tax scheme they say defrauded the Nordic country out of 9.6 billion kroner ($1.6 billion).

Sanjay Shah, who founded a London hedge fund that specialized in controversial Cum-Ex trades, was charged by Danish prosecutors in a 9.6 billion-krone ($1.6 billion) tax-fraud probe, according to a person familiar with the case.

Dozens of millionaires from the U.S. and six other countries have a message for their governments: “Tax us. Tax us. Tax us.”