Around half of companies assessed have begun to apply globally-agreed climate-related disclosure standards for helping investors to pick firms committed to sustainability, regulators said on Thursday.
The European Commission published a "toolbox" of measures on Wednesday to tackle surging energy prices, which have curtailed industrial production and left European consumers facing higher heating bills as winter approaches.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is likely to attend the U.N. COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, officials said on Tuesday, after he was widely criticised for failing to commit earlier as his government faces pressure to take stronger action to reduce carbon emissions.
Britain will be among the first countries to apply corporate sustainability disclosure standards from a new global board to be unveiled soon, a government minister said on Tuesday.
Surging energy costs stoked tensions between European Union countries over their green transition on Wednesday, with wealthy member states saying it proved the need to press on with new climate change policies and some poorer ones wary.