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It would cover food processing, beverage manufacturing and tobacco products, and extend into agricultural value chains.

The 12-week consultation drew nearly 5,000 comments, and the draft cannot move to final publication in its current form.

The EU markets regulator will also process rating applications and broaden oversight of green bond reviewers, tape providers and benchmark administrators.

Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin announced Canada is developing an ITMO framework that Ottawa says could draw investment into carbon removal and nature-based projects; no buyers are named.

Released Sept. 28 during ISO's annual meeting, the framework covers choosing goals, setting indicators and governing progress, and builds on 2024 guidelines.

The rules bar generic environmental assertions and offset-based carbon-neutral claims, and require independent verification of advertised future climate targets.

The Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive covers banking and energy marketing, and Belgium and Germany also apply it to business-to-business communications.

SCS's Christie Pollet-Young wants verifiers at the table where carbon rules are written, as assurance becomes the market's real chokepoint.

Coal's 2038 exit and the 80% renewables target are what capital can underwrite; the 2045 headline is a ceiling the plan does not price.

Europe's largest economy now has an end date on paper, but the financing of grids, backup power and heat rests on interim targets with no cost estimate.

EmpCo lands on 27 September with a 4% turnover penalty and an audit mandate, and the compliance bill tracks claims made rather than revenue earned.

Enforcement starts 27 September 2026. The brands that keep making green claims will already be measuring their suppliers.

ImpactAlpha's case for disclosure reform is a claim about price, and the buyers forming in African private markets may not be the ones the reform is priced for.

A near-miss ballot sends ISO’s corporate net-zero standard back to committee, postponing the assurance layer that greenwashing claims will eventually be argued against.

With a final rule targeted for November 2026 and a credit that sunsets for fuel produced after 2029, 45Z leaves a short underwriting window that rewards producers already in production.

Companies still inside the CSRD file a shorter statement from 2027; the 90% the Omnibus cut loose answer a capped voluntary standard instead.

Slipping the import verification date a year buys importers political cover and costs them a year of ramp toward a 2030 intensity standard that has not moved.

ASIC's review of the first 40 statutory sustainability reports finds governance progress and thin assumptions in the sections investors actually read, just as Treasury begins work on making the disclosures cheaper to produce.

The Commission's 500 kW labelling proposal hands investors a comparable dataset for Europe's AI build-out and leaves the resource question for someone else to answer.

Without a filing deadline to force it, the companies that keep the assessment will be the ones whose findings already reach a risk register.

Member states have bought covered industry five more years of softer carbon costs, and the bill lands in the same carbon-market plumbing the 2027 reform is meant to tighten.

The 1942 mechanism that puts climate and pay resolutions on US ballots would go, and with it the only federal requirement that a company explain why a proposal never reached a vote.

A second proposal three weeks after the first deletes a federal filing rather than relocating a decision, and no state has yet written the rules that would take its place.

The $310 billion in avoided compliance costs is an estimate the EPA controls; what a kilowatt-hour costs is decided by other people.

The 464-50 mandate takes the border levy into finished goods and makes verifiable emissions data the thing importers actually have to buy.

Both co-legislators enter trilogue from a broader list than the Commission proposed, making a 450-product CBAM the starting point rather than the outer limit.

The FCA's autumn Policy Statement will settle the rules, but the demand for traceable sustainability numbers is already moving through supply chains.

A 43% cut by 2030 now depends on charger buildout and grid queues the manufacturers don't control — and the industry wants ETS revenue to pay for them.

Killing the power-plant standards is a rulemaking another administration can redo; killing the finding beneath them changes what a future administration must first prove.

The 2026 finance bill pulls about $580 million from ANAH, leaving MaPrimeRénov' to lean on energy-supplier certificates whose 2026 volume the state has not set.

A minimum quality weighting of 30% turns climate plans, labour practices and supply-chain data into bid documents, with national authorities holding the discretion that decides how hard it bites.

A 30% minimum quality weighting puts public demand behind the EU's climate goals and hands every contracting authority the discretion to decide what quality means.

The Parliament's lead ETS negotiator wants three-quarters of auction revenue returned to covered industry, and the cap profile he pairs with it will decide a decade of European industrial capex.

The ECON committee wants companies in SFDR's new Transition category to spend more on sustainable activities than on new fossil fuel projects, setting up a fight with member states over who qualifies.

ISO's net-zero standard has cleared its first comment window; its transition-plan clause now faces a ratification path expected to run into 2027.

The draft adds transition pathways for air transport and iron and steel, growing the framework from 25 to 39 activities.