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Sustainable finance: key themes for regulation and policy in 2023

The year ahead could be dominated by ESG-related regulation and progress on sustainability data initiatives, Michael Hurley writes

Q&A: IOSCO and the carbon markets

Rostin Behnam and Verena Ross answer questions about why it has issued two reports on the carbon markets

Sustainable finance regulation 'needs to focus on transition'

Transforming financial regulation so it encourages decarbonisation objectives, rather than concentrating only on the 'greenest' activities, must become the focus of regulators, an Environmental Finance webinar heard.

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

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.

Goldman Sachs charged for ESG fund failures

The asset management division of banking giant Goldman Sachs has been charged for failures to follow its own policies and procedures for the environmental, social and governance (ESG) research its teams used to make investments.

ESMA offers 'backdoor' solution to SFDR fund labelling misuse

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'

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

Are regulators suffering mission creep at COP27, asks Peter Cripps

COP27: What are the prospects for ITMOs?

Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes are expected to be a feature of the current COP, write Pedro Carvalho and Alexis Massot

Northern Trust: Data is greatest challenge for ESG investors