By Neil Hodge2023-10-24T14:00:00
Companies are still struggling to report meaningfully on societal risks as part of their efforts to meet demands for better environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures.
Speaking at Compliance Week’s Europe conference in London, Geert Vermeulen, chief executive officer at independent firm The Integrity Coordinator, told attendees his clients often complain the hardest part of ESG reporting for them to address is the social aspect and how they can get assurance on issues such as child labor and slavery.
He added companies are anxious about any potential penalties they might face for failing to report properly.
2024-02-01T14:01:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Richard Brasher, vice-president of sustainability at multinational automotive parts company LKQ Corp., discusses with Compliance Week his view on the added attention sustainability initiatives are receiving and where improvement remains.
2023-12-28T14:50:00Z By Neil Hodge
Companies could be in danger of failing to comply with a raft of social responsibility-minded legislation at the European Union and national level because they might mistakenly think duties on corporates overlap when they do not.
2023-11-28T16:00:00Z By Aly McDevitt
Climate-related disclosure efforts are amplifying year over year, despite persistent and persnickety pain points, as more organizations widen the scope of their ESG journeys, our “Inside the Mind of the CCO” survey found.
2025-07-26T01:58:00Z By Aly McDevitt
The SEC refused to say whether it would enforce its landmark Climate-Related Disclosure Rules in a status report filed Wednesday, deepening uncertainty as the regulation faces legal challenges.
2025-07-18T13:59:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has withdrawn its draft corporate governance framework that it released in May, after “extensive feedback” and provisions in the recently passed “One Big Beautiful Bill” caused its authors to reconsider it.
2025-05-23T18:33:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have bolstered a conservative legal effort to dismantle environmental, social, and governance-based investment strategies from three large asset managers by claiming they illegally conspired to artificially raise energy prices.
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