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ESMA calls for evidence ahead of ESG ratings regulation

The EU's securities markets regulator has asked for evidence on ESG ratings providers, as it considers rules to govern the booming market.

EU Platform wants 'clarity' on its role as it presses ahead with social taxonomy

The chair of the Platform on Sustainable Finance has called for "clarity" on how the European Commission considers the expert group's advice, as controversy swirls around the Commission's inclusion of nuclear and gas in its latest proposals.

Commission stands firm on nuclear, gas in 'imperfect' taxonomy

The European Commission has confirmed plans to define nuclear and natural gas energy generation activities as 'sustainable' in its taxonomy, in a plan it suggested is "imperfect" but practical - in the face of fierce criticism by specialist sustainability investors.

Commission risks undermining taxonomy regulation, warns EU Platform

European Commission proposals that would allow some nuclear and natural gas to be labelled as sustainable risk undermining fundamental precepts of the EU taxonomy regulation and should be reworked into an entirely new framework, an expert group appointed by the EU has warned.

ISS: Nuclear, gas have no positive sustainability impact

Nuclear and gas energy generation - which the EU has proposed including in its taxonomy of sustainable activities - have "no net positive" sustainability impact, ISS ESG has said.

Germany is against nuclear in taxonomy, says minister

Germany's environment minister has said the country's coalition government will tell the European Commission that the EU's biggest economy is against proposals to define nuclear energy generation as 'green'.

Nuclear, gas in taxonomy is 'biggest greenwash ever'

Members of the EU Platform on sustainable finance have warned that the environmental credentials of the bloc's sustainability taxonomy will be irrevocably damaged if plans to include nuclear and fossil gas energy generation proceed.

Mandatory EU green bond standard would cause 'major disruption'

The proposal of making an EU green bond standard mandatory for issuers would undermine sustainable capital markets worldwide,...

EU's nuclear, gas taxonomy inclusion prompts fierce response

A text by the European Commission that proposes inclusion of some nuclear and natural gas energy generation activities in the EU's sustainability taxonomy has sparked a fierce response from some observers, who argue the proposals would undermine the credibility of the framework.

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