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Taxonomy users told to get creative to maximise its transition planning potential

The EU taxonomy of sustainable activities can help formulate climate transition plans in ways it is currently not being widely used, according to members of a European Commission-mandated expert group.

EU Platform snubs SLBs in its climate investment stocktake

Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) are set to be omitted from a stocktake of sustainable capital flows in the EU, highlighting doubts about the materiality and ambition of the targets used by the instruments.

EU expert group to examine how to hardwire taxonomy into transition plans

An EU-mandated expert group is to advise the EU how criteria from its sustainability taxonomy can be "systematically integrated" to improve comparability and credibility of organisations' climate transition plans.

EU Platform begins transition plan work as it denies EU neglects issue

A commonly held perception that the EU's sustainable finance framework does not support 'transition' activities is "wrong", the chair of an independent EU advisory group has said, as it begins work on what good transition plans look like.

Investors devise long wish list for much-maligned SFDR

Every financial product sold in the EU should be required to disclose sustainability information under the much-maligned Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), Europe's largest asset manager has said.

Call for EU to create 'taxonomy-aligning' benchmarks

The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance has proposed 'taxonomy-aligning' benchmarks that would select constituents based on the percentage of their investments in activities aligned with the EU's taxonomy.

Taxonomy criteria for aviation and shipping enter EU law

How to complete the EU's taxonomy

The creation of two types of sustainable investment will bring clarity to where transition investment needs to be focused, Helena Viñes Fiestas tells Michael Hurley

EU Platform calls for two types of sustainable investment in SFDR

The Platform on Sustainable Finance has called for the creation of two types of sustainable investment under the EU's sustainable finance package of regulations, including the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

Common-ground taxonomy to be expanded

The Common Ground Taxonomy (CGT) of sustainable activities is being extended beyond the EU and China, by the International Platform on Sustainable Finance, Ma Jun has said.