Mandatory climate risk disclosure appears inevitable in Australia, following a meeting of G7 finance ministers that also backed TCFD-style disclosure of nature impacts.
As Matthias Cormann prepares to take up the top OECD job, the G7 has released a new report from the agency he will lead that urges the use of taxes to help fight biodiversity loss.
More polluting companies would be prosecuted and their executives could face jail, under new environmental and clean energy proposals released by US presidential contender Joe Biden.
Within two years, Europe will have set a date for imposing border taxes on emissions-intensive imports from countries without a carbon price, a leading UK carbon expert has predicted.