Climate change

Deloitte announced the launch of GreenLight Solution, an enterprise decarbonization Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.

Companies are getting ready for the Securities and Exchange Commission to finalize the climate-related disclosure rule it proposed last year.

The vote was 50-46 to end a rule that allows retirement plans to weigh climate change and other environmental, social and governance issues in their investment decisions.

Once a distant dream, a worldwide framework for reporting is now being enthusiastically pursued by prominent players.

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.

Net zero pledges made by some of the world's largest corporations fall far short of the progress required.

Much of the current focus is on the environmental aspect of ESG, but the social and governance aspects will be just as important.

Senator Joe Manchin is pushing back against efforts to apply broad interpretations to a tax credit for electric vehicles that he largely wrote.

There's a catch buried in the law: Projects that don't meet certain new wage and labor requirements only get a fraction of the credit.

A recent report from the IMA looked at the finance function's readiness to meet accelerating demands from the SEC and elsewhere for climate risk information.