Report on the supervision by the CNMV of sustainability information for the 2024 financial year. CNMV.
The report describes the supervisory work carried out on the sustainability information of issuers. It also includes the priority areas in the supervision of the NFIS or Sustainability Reports for the 2025 financial year, announcing recommendations to improve their quality, indicating that during 2026 attention will be paid to the breakdowns related to the assessment […]
How to Address the Intersection of Environmental and Social Risks for Investors, University of Cambridge.
The framework explains how environmental and social risks accumulate in three dimensions: geographic scale, value chain complexity, and sociodemographic vulnerabilities (how inequalities influence exposure, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity). It provides practical insight for investors to identify cumulative risks and opportunities for resilient transformation.
Integrated ocean carbon research. UNESCO.
The program’s mission is to improve understanding of the ocean as a changing sink for CO2. The programme has identified five priority areas: Evolution of the ocean carbon sink, the changing role of biology in the ocean carbon cycle, carbon exchanges, the impact of ocean industrial processes on the ocean carbon life cycle, and future […]
How global insurers are responding to growing physical risk. MSCI Institute.
This report is based on responses to a survey of insurers. The research focuses on how insurers assess and manage physical risks in underwriting today, the practical challenges they face when integrating changing risk conditions into decision-making, and where they identify opportunities for innovation and new products and services that foster resilience.
Limit China’s influence in the European energy system. European Union Institute for Security Studies.
The EU must reconcile its renewable energy ambitions with the risks of over-dependence on China. This requires targeted public procurement for defense-related needs, especially in solar PV, along with selective trade restrictions on wind energy and safeguards for the emerging green hydrogen and synthetic fuels industries.
A strategic framework for a competitive and sustainable bioeconomy. European Council.
This strategy charts the way forward to build a sustainable and nature-positive bioeconomy by: increasing innovation and investments; creating pioneering new markets for bio-based materials and technologies; ensuring a sustainable supply of biomass across all value chains and seizing global opportunities.
Special report Energy communities. European Court of Auditors.
Renewable energies play a key role. The report assesses whether energy communities have been able to commit to generating the expected benefits. In particular, the report checks whether the Commission had set well-defined objectives that were properly monitored and were on track to be achieved. It also examines whether the right conditions had been created.
Driving the decarbonisation of transport and buildings for the benefit of all. European Environment Agency
The report covers emissions trends in the road transport and building sectors, analysing how ETS2 interacts with wider European legislation. The report delves into the impacts between Member States, examining energy and transport poverty indicators, and the potential effects of carbon pricing on households, transport users and micro-enterprises.
Platform response to the European Commission’s Consultation on ESRS. EU Platform on Sustainable Finance
The revisions contribute to a more user-friendly sustainability reporting framework, but further simplification depends on strengthening the integration of the Standards (ESRS) within the broader framework of sustainable finance. Making these interconnections reduces duplication by allowing the ESRS overlapping data points to serve both frameworks through a single, integrated reporting and assurance process.
Opinion of the European Securities and Markets Authority on EFRAG’s opinion on the revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards. ESMA.
EFRAG has submitted a draft that includes several improvements. In addition, useful simplifications have been introduced in several areas, such as the relationship between general and thematic requirements on policies, actions and objectives. ESMA’s comments relate to a limited number of areas where it considers that the proposed changes reduce the ability of the rules […]
