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  • CSRD 'simplification' saga nears end with adoption of EU standards

    03 July 2026

    Observers have welcomed the adoption of heavily reduced European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), a development they said would accelerate preparations for implementation following almost two years of uncertainty.

  • Dozens of financial institutions urge EU against weakening sustainability rules

    01 July 2025
  • Germany is against nuclear in taxonomy, says minister

    10 January 2022

    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'.

  • Concern as EU Taxonomy proposals diverge from TEG recommendations

    25 November 2020

    The EU's trail blazing sustainability taxonomy passed another milestone, with the publication of the draft technical criteria, reports Ahren Lester. But divergences from the expert recommendations show that significant challenges face the closely watched 'green' list