FCA - Finance for positive sustainable change: governance, incentives and competence in regulated firms
The FCA have published their response to their a discussion paper on firms' sustainability-related governance, incentives, and competencies. They have introduced some rules relating to themes in the paper and have no plans to introduce any more. More details can be found here.
ESG Ratings and Data Providers
Click here for details about the work by regulators and governments on ensuring good governance by ESG ratings and data products providers.
ESG & Impact Investing Committee - Current Activities
Click to view details of a number of initiatives that the Committee is working on to support members in the ESG and Impact Investing arena.
FCA – Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels
Find out more here about the FCA's Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels regime.
UK Green Taxonomy
AREF has submitted a response to HM Treasury consultation on a UK Green Taxonomy. More details can be found here.
TNFD - Sector Guidance - Real Estate
TNFD has published the sector guidance - Engineering, construction and real estate. More details can be found here.
ESG Metrics for Real Estate
The reporting principles in the paper on ESG Metrics for Real Estate have been updated in January 2025.
Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)
In May 2024 the European Commission published its Summary Report of the Open and Targeted Consultations on the SFDR assessment. This was followed by the ESAs Joint Opinion on the assessment of SFDR. More details can be found here.