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The European Central Bank (ECB) has been criticised for a lack of urgency in its review of the 'market neutrality' principle...

Over 70% of the European Central Bank's corporate bond portfolio may be financing companies involved in high levels of nature degradation...

The European Central Bank (ECB) will introduce environmental sustainability disclosure requirements for private assets, it has said, in a move that could help it tilt its asset purchases and collateral rules away from heavily polluting companies.

European investment funds are particularly at risk of harmful "repricing" as the markets adapt to climate change, the European Central Bank (ECB) has said.

Frank Elderson has said eurozone banks' self-assessments of climate risks has exposed widespread "inertia", and "serves as a clear warning to us, the supervisory authorities" as the ECB considers what action to take to address mismanagement.

The European Central Bank is considering "tilting" its asset purchases toward issuers with plans to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, a member of its executive board has revealed.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has warned that "a greater understanding of the potential risks posed by climate change is urgently needed" and called for mandatory climate-related disclosures.

The European Central Bank (ECB) has placed Eurozone banks on notice that, where it sees that they "are not managing their exposures to climate-related risks in an adequate manner, we can and will draw on the full supervisory toolkit at our disposal to correct that situation".

The National Bank of Belgium (NBB) is being sued by ClientEarth in a 'landmark' legal action to stop the central bank from funding fossil fuel firms through its bond buying programme, amid broader pressure from the environmental law charity on the European Central Bank (ECB) 'quantitative easing' policy.