EP: Update on the Sustainable Corporate Governance and on the Liability of companies for environmental damage files – ecoDa EU Alert 47

It includes:

  1. EP: Update on the Sustainable Corporate Governance and on the Liability of companies for environmental damage files
  2. EFRAG: Preparatory work for the elaboration of possible EU non-financial reporting standards
  3. EFRAG: Changes to governance and financing
  4. Essay: Sustainable Corporate Governance: The Role of the Law (ECGI)
  5. Report: For a European Law of Compliance (Le Club des Juristes)
  6. Report: Third TCFD Status Report shows progress
  7. ECMI: Europe’s Capital Markets puzzle
  8. Event: Policy Workshop on Sustainability Reporting – IFRS Consultation (ECGI and IEF) (Registration HERE)
  9. Event: 2020 European Risk Management Awards Week (FERMA) (Registration HERE)
  10. Summary Report: Corporate Governance for sustainable and competitive European companies (ecoDa, BusinessEurope and EuropeanIssuers)
  11. ecoDa’s News

 ECGI : Webinars on Directors’ Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance – EcoDa EuAlert 46

It includes

  1.  ECGI : Webinars on Directors’ Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance
  2. Capital Market Union is progressing too slowly 
  3. EP: Green Deal 
  4. EC: New Consumer Agenda
  5. ESMA: Corporate Governance: Back on the agenda 
  6. Report: New data show insufficient progress in companies’ climate and environmental disclosures (Alliance for Corporate Transparency)
  7. News: Refinitiv acquires The Red Flag Group, significantly expanding its suite of due diligence offerings
  8. Event:  The European Business and Nature Summit
  9. Event Recording: ICGN Global Virtual Summit 2020
  10. ecoDa’s News

 

ESMA: Consultation to specify obligations on environmentally sustainable activities – Ecoda EU Alert 45

It includes

1. ESMA: Identified deficiencies in German supervision of Wirecard’s financial reporting

2. ESMA: Consultation to specify obligations on environmentally sustainable activities

3. EBA: Discussion on ESG risks management and supervision

4. Council of the EU: Collective Redress for consumers

5. GNDI: Actual concerns of national institutes of directors worldwide

6. Paper: Shareholder Value(s): Index Fund ESG Activism and the New Millennial Corporate Governancen (ECGI)

7. Article: Covid-19 is rewriting the rules of Corporate Governance (Harvard Business Review)

8.  Workshop: on Directors’ Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance (ECGI) 

9. ecoDa’s News

EP and EC: Sustainable Corporate Governance – ecoDa Eu Alert 43-44

It Includes

  1. EP and EC: Sustainable Corporate Governance
  2. EP: Due Diligence and Corporate Accountability – Updates and Studies
  3. EP: Liability of companies for environmental damages – Updates and Studies
  4. Call for action: From Shareholders Primacy to Stakeholder Capitalism: a Policy Agenda for Systems Change (B Lab and The Shareholders Commons
  5. Paper: Shareholder Value in a Burning World (Project Syndicate)
  6. Policy Paper European Green Transparency: Lessons from France and Further Room Improvement (Institut Jacques Delors)
  7. Publication: The 2020 European AGM Season (Morrow Sodali)
  8. Paper: Four ways boards can oversee risk management beyond Covid-19 (EY) 
  9. Global Survey: EY Board Barometer Survey  
  10. ecoDa’s News

EP: Corporate due diligence and corporate accountability and Sustainable Corporate Governance – ecoDa Eu Alert 42

It includes,

  1.  EP: Corporate due diligence and corporate accountability and Sustainable Corporate Governance
  2. EU Ministers: Women on boards
  3. EC Sustainable CG: Response from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School
  4. EP: MEPS quizzed EU financial authorities on the Wirecard case
  5. Paper: What should corporations do? (Project Syndicate)
  6. Report: The Swedish Corporate Governance Board
  7. Event: Corporate Governance for sustainable and competitive European companies
  8. Event: Guberna Directors’ Day
  9. ecoDa’s News

EC : Responses to the EC Impact Assessment on sustainable CG – ecoDa EU Alert 41

It included:

  1. EP and EC: Topics related to Corporate Governance discussed this week at the Plenary
  2. EC : Responses to the EC Impact Assessment on sustainable CG
  3. OECD : Developing sustainable finance definitions and taxonomies
  4. Paper: Slow progress on gender diversity in boardroom (Minerva Analytics)
  5. Paper: FRC revamps UK Stewardship Code with new report obligation (Minerva Analytics)
  6. Survey: IFA/ Governance at the time of the Covid-19 crisis
  7. Report: CGLytics DAX Report
  8. Event: Global Responsibility of Global Enterprises
  9. MEPs – Blackrock case
  10. ecoDa’s news

Report on Common Shareholding in Europe – ecoDa EU Alert 40

It includes:

  1.  EP: Hearings of Commissioner-designate Mairead McGuinness
  2. EC: Members of the Platform on Sustainable Finance revealed
  3. EBA: 2021 Working Programme
  4. EC: Report on Common Shareholding in Europe
  5. IFRS Consultation Paper on Sustainability Reporting
  6. Article: Milton Friedman’s shareholder doctrine is dead
  7. Report: OECD – Sustainable and Resilient Finance
  8. Webinar Recording: Disruption and Purpose – the role of business in society
  9. ecoDa’s news

Action Plan to boost the European Union’s Capital Markets Union – ecoDa EU Alert

It includes:

  1. EP: Corporate Governance topics discussed
  2. . EC: Action Plan to boost the European Union’s Capital Markets Union
  3. EC: A new Digital Finance Package
  4. . ESMA: Proposals to help prevent and detect withholding tax reclaim schemes
  5. EP: New subcommittee on tax matters
  6. Germany: Finance Minister endorses country-by-country reporting of MNE tax information
  7. ECGI Working Paper: Corporations, Directors’ Duties and Public/Private Divide
  8. Papers: A Resilience Framework for Catastrophe Risks
  9. Report: The annual Female FTSE Board Report
  10. Report: Risks in 2021
  11. . ecoDa’s news

Draft Report on Corporate due diligence and corporate accountability- ecoDa EU Alert

 

It includes:

  1. EP: Draft Report on Corporate due diligence and corporate accountability
  2. 25th European Corporate Governance Conference: White paper tr
  3. EBA: Calls on the EC to establish a single rulebook on fighting money laundering and terrorist financing
  4. SMEunited: SME test should be reviewed
  5. CEOs urging the European Commission to set higher 2030 emissions reduction targets US: Investors group urges
  6. SEC to reopen proxy rules comment period
  7. Event: EBF High-level public dialogue: European Banking beyond the pandemic
  8. Event: European Commission High-level conference on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing
  9. ecoDa’s News

Report: What is needed for progress towards comprehensive corporate reporting – ecoDa EU Alert

 

It includes:

  1. EP: Ongoing debates on Corporate Governance topics
  2. European Commission Reshuffle (Cicero note)
  3. EBA: Consultation to revise its Guidelines on internal governance
  4. EFRAG: Appoints members and Chair for the European Lab Project Task Force
  5. Report: What is needed for progress towards comprehensive corporate reporting
  6. Report from Institut Montaigne: Responsible Capitalism: An Opportunity for Europe
  7. Report: From policy to practice: Testing the EU Taxonomy
  8. Report: ecoDa & Mazars joint publication “Times to put sustainability at the heart of business”
  9. Event: 26th European Corporate Governance Conference
  10. Event: Global Supply Chains – Global Responsibility Conference
  11. ecoDa’s News