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  • Scrambled regs to give investors indigestion in 2025

    20 December 2024

    Investors must digest a diet of disparate sustainable finance regulations in the year ahead. Michael Hurley reports

  • EU 'transition' benchmarks pitched to incentivise taxonomy-aligned capex spending

    19 December 2024

    'Investing for transition' benchmarks have been pitched to the EU that would incentivise progressively greater capital expenditure (capex) in 'sustainable' activities linked to the EU taxonomy.

  • German ministers propose vast cutbacks to CSRD

    18 December 2024

    Senior ministers in the German government have called for European sustainability reporting requirements to be drastically cut back and delayed by two years, in a leaked letter to European commissioners.

  • China and India join 31-member network for ISSB adoption in emerging markets

    18 December 2024

    China and India are among 31 jurisdictions to join a newly launched network to support adoption of International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards in emerging markets.

  • Swiss regulator finalises guidance on climate and nature-related financial risks

    18 December 2024
  • EU advisers push for sustainability, transition categories to replace SFDR Articles 8 & 9

    17 December 2024

    The EU has been told it should create three categories of sustainable investment products to replace the existing Article 8 and 9 disclosure framework under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), by its expert Platform on Sustainable Finance

  • Define impact investing in SFDR, EU Platform says

    17 December 2024

    The EU should define impact investing so impact funds can be distinguished in an overhauled Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), according to expert advisors mandated by the European Commission.

  • Commission weighing merits of two options for SFDR fund categories

    13 December 2024

    The European Commission is weighing the merits of two options for a fund categorisation system in an overhauled Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), as it looks for inspiration from the UK and existing European fund labels.

  • People moves, 13 December: GRI, Blue Earth Capital; Eiffel Investment Group ... and more

    13 December 2024
  • Swiss impact investing platform launches

    12 December 2024