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Asset manager carve-out for CSRD risks investor 'blind spot', Eurosif warns

A proposed exemption for asset managers from EU sustainability reporting rules risks leaving a "blind spot" that hinders supervisors and end investors, according to Eurosif.

Eurosif laments absence of DNSH criteria in latest SFDR draft text

SFDR should define what 'positive contribution' means, Eurosif says

Investors work to detangle 'messy' CSRD reporting

The first CSRD-aligned reports vary greatly in quality and consistency - leaving investors to hunt for the information they need, Michael Hurley writes

Dozens of financial institutions urge EU against weakening sustainability rules

Easing the reporting burden

EFRAG's plan to simplify the CSRD and lighten its load on companies met with guarded praise from financial institutions. Michael Hurley reports

EU Omnibus: 'Investors will be left in the dark' by CSRD cuts, voluntary taxonomy reporting

Proposals to require only the largest companies to report on the EU taxonomy and to cut the scope of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) have fuelled concerns that investors will be deprived of sustainability data, as the EU unveiled its controversial 'simplification' package.

Safeguarding the EU's sustainable finance framework is critical for its competitiveness

Efforts to make the EU's sustainable finance regulations work better for everyone are welcome, but investors need high-quality sustainability data and regulatory certainty, write Stephanie Pfeifer, Aleksandra Palinska, and David Atkin

Investors sound alarm that EU's Omnibus threatens 'significant weakening' of ESG data

The European Commission's plans to overhaul sustainability reporting risk hollowing out the EU sustainable finance framework and jeopardising its Green Deal, it has been warned by investors with a combined €6.6 trillion ($6.8 trillion) in assets.

EU financial services commissioner confirmed, urged to stick to SFDR pledge