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  • ESMA, ISS ESG to discuss the future of sustainable finance regulation

    29 November 2022

    The ways in which sustainable finance regulation can evolve to help investors more efficiently channel investments to support the transition to net zero is to be discussed on an Environmental Finance webinar.

  • ESMA offers 'backdoor' solution to SFDR fund labelling misuse

    23 November 2022

    A major reclassification of self-labelled 'sustainable' funds is likely after ESMA proposes necessary - but complicating - naming guidelines, Anne Schoemaker tells Ahren Lester

  • ESMA ESG fund naming guidelines are 'significant step'

    21 November 2022

    The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has opened a consultation on proposed environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment fund naming guidelines...

  • COP27: Regulators march on ... and on

    14 November 2022

    Are regulators suffering mission creep at COP27, asks Peter Cripps

  • Introduce ESG benchmark to tackle greenwashing, says ESMA

    24 August 2022

    The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has recommended that the creation of minimum requirements for environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmark indexes would help tackle examples of 'greenwashing'.

  • Commission asks EU regulators for 'greenwashing' risk reports

    16 August 2022

    The European Commission has asked the European Supervisory Agencies (ESAs) to provide reports within two years on the extent of 'greenwashing' in the bloc's financial markets and the potential policies it could use to tackle the risks.

  • EU disclosure standards risk overcomplication, supervisors warn

    09 August 2022

    Draft standards for European corporate disclosures on sustainability issues are overcomplicated, may disincentivise disclosures and risk divergence from global requirements, EU supervisors argue.

  • EU reporting on adverse impacts 'lacks detail'

    29 July 2022

  • Delayed European database for disclosures gets Council sign-off

    30 June 2022

    A two-year delay to a proposal for a free, publicly available European Single Access Point (ESAP) for financial and sustainability-related information has been agreed by EU member states.

  • ESMA launches sustainable finance working group

    17 June 2022