October 2026 Newsletter: Nature Enters Reporting, Resilience Gets a Law
October was a month in which rules and timelines shifted while capital and companies kept moving. On the compliance front, the ISSB opened a consultation on nature-related disclosures, bringing nature closer to mainstream reporting. The European Parliament backed a three-year delay to the EU’s methane rules, while the European Commission proposed its first Climate Resilience Law to prepare Europe for physical climate risks. Globally, high temperatures struck hard on economies
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SSA 5000: A Practitioner’s Guide to India’s New Sustainability Assurance Standard
Image Source: CA Sansaar Standard on Sustainability Assurance (SSA) 5000, General Requirements for Sustainability Assurance Engagements. Issued by the Sustainability Reporting Standards Board (SRSB) of ICAI. AT A GLANCE Issuer SRSB, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India Basis Draws on the IAASB’s ISSA 5000; deleted or modified paragraphs are tabulated in Appendix 4 Effective date Sustainability information reported for periods beginning on or after 1 April 2027 What
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September 2026 Newsletter: Reporting Rules Simplify, Data Centers Face Scrutiny
September showed a clear pattern. Reporting rules in Europe, the UK and the US are being reshaped, India continued to build its climate infrastructure and green capital markets, and data centres moved from being a technology story to an ESG story. Like always, we have divided the newsletter into sections so you can jump straight to the topics that interest you. Each news piece carries source links for further reading, and where we have written a detailed blog on a topic, we h
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