It Includes:

• Update on the Sustainable Corporate Governance file
• France: Court orders French government to ‘repair’ carbon emissions overshoot (The Guardian)
• UK: Watchdog wants power to cap Big Four’s FTSE 350 audit clients 
• Companies call on G20 to act on climate change (Minerva Analytics)
• OECD: Ground-breaking tax deal
• Basel III Monitoring Report
• PRI Report: Investment mandates: embedding ESG factors
• EY Board Barometer Survey 
• Is it time to integrate ESG into executive compensation? (Salzburg Global Seminar)
• Why stakeholder capitalism is not enough? (Embedding Project)
• Companies with narcissistic CEOs have lower share prices but better governance (Board Agenda)
• 2021 European Corporate Governance Conference: Beyond Traditional Corporate Governance – Sustainability & Innovation

ecoDa’s NEWS

• The recording of ecoDa’s last webinar organized under the patronage of DG GROW on “Underpinning entrepreneurship and resilience: Key governance challenges for unlisted companies” is now available.
• 14th of October: ecoDa exchanges with DG GROW on the Sustainable Corporate Governance file;
• 26th of October: ecoDa’s Working on ESG meeting;
• 28th of October:
  • ecoDa, ECIIA, FERMA Joint Working Group on Sustainability Risks meeting;
  • GNDI Policy Committee meeting;
• 29th of October: ecoDa’s Policy Committee meeting.

The EU Alert is available for download here.

Beyond Traditional Corporate Governance: Sustainability & Innovation

On behalf of EY, ecoDa and the Slovenian Directors’ Association, we would like to invite you to attend this year’s virtual European Corporate Governance Conference 2021 on Tuesday 9 November 2021 (2pm-5pm CET), in partnership with ACCA, BusinessEurope and EuropeanIssuers. As an accompanying event to the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU, this online Conference will bring together experts, policy-makers as well as practitioners to express their views on “ Beyond Traditional Corporate Governance – Sustainability & Innovation”. The agenda can be found here. REGISTER HERE !