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'AI could offer better green bond impact and incentives from day one'
21 March 2025Artificial intelligence (AI) could provide an opportunity for green bonds to become "more incentivising and transparent" around impact from the very earliest structuring phase,...
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ISS preparing sustainability bond rating
21 March 2025ISS Stoxx is readying a 'sustainability bond rating' that it says will help investors analyse the sustainability impact and risks of labelled bonds, ...
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FoSDA appoints former CFA UK CEO as first exec director
20 March 2025The Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) has appointed former CFA UK chief executive Will Goodhart as its first executive director.
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Omnibus bolsters case for requiring double materiality in EU ESG ratings, investor says
19 March 2025The case for changing the EU ESG ratings regulation to require ratings to use a 'double materiality' assessment was strengthened by proposed cuts to corporate sustainability reporting rules, according to Algebris Investments.
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CSRD guidance for real estate being readied to help in absence of sector-specific standards
18 March 2025The real estate sector is devising its own guidance on the most relevant datapoints to disclose under EU rules, as the bloc proposes to abandon work to develop sector-specific standards.
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Omnibus CSRD cuts threaten investor access to sustainability data, Dutch regulator says
18 March 2025The Dutch financial markets supervisor has urged companies to continue reporting sustainability information in line with the current version of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), as it warned that EU proposals to change the CSRD threatened investor access to data.
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'About half' of companies in scope of imperilled SEC rule may have to disclose anyway - Ceres
17 March 2025The combination of climate disclosure rules in California and the EU, and other national rules with extraterritorial reach, are set to capture about half of the companies that would have been in scope of the imperilled Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule, Ceres has estimated.
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Omnibus could have knock-on impact for EU climate benchmarks, observers say
17 March 2025Proposed cuts to sustainability reporting under the EU's Omnibus package could impact the data needed to populate EU climate benchmarks - particularly those focused on judging transition credentials, an investor suggested.
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Lawmakers propose bill that would block CSDDD for US companies
13 March 2025A bill has been proposed by US lawmakers that would "prohibit certain US entities from being forced to comply with any foreign sustainability due diligence regulation", including the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
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EFRAG mulls pivot from financial institution standards to guidance after Omnibus
13 March 2025The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) is preparing to decide how it can help financial institutions report in line with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) after the EU's Omnibus package withdrew the prospect of sector-specific standards.