ESG News

Read more about the policy work being undertaken by governments, regulators & standard setting bodies in relation to sustainable finance and climate-related disclosures. See AREF's responses to current UK consultations.

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View here the FCA work on enhancing climate-related disclosures by asset managers, life insurers, and FCA-regulated pension providers.

Find out the latest on SFDR here.

Green Taxonomy section – change text to: In mid-July 2025 the Government announced that they have decided to not proceed with a UK Green Taxonomy. More details can be found here.

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.

Click here for details about the work by regulators and governments on ensuring good governance by ESG ratings and data products providers.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published a voluntary framework for the disclosure of climate-related financial risks

Find out more here about the FCA's Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels regime.

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.

TNFD has published the sector guidance - Engineering, construction and real estate.  More details can be found here.

The reporting principles in the paper on ESG Metrics for Real Estate have been updated in January 2025.