Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

ESMA has now declared that era to be over, with new guidelines and thresholds including a minimum of 80% of investments to meet funds’ environmental or social characteristics, or sustainable investment objectives.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

How escalating demands in the labelled bond space are changing practices for investors and what you need to do to keep pace. By Sustainable Fitch. Investor thirst for sustainable investments across all asset classes has seen fixed income issuance creation and supply skyrocket year-over-year to meet the demand.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Additional clarifications about the definition of a sustainable investment and about Article 8 and Article 9 classifications are expected soon, but in the meantime, caution and thorough due diligence remains key,” said Hortense Bioy, Global Director of Sustainable Research at Morningstar. targeting an allocation of 50%.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“One key benefit of transition funds is that they have huge flexibility and a wide variety of approaches, allowing for diverse strategies that target different sectors, regions or stages of the decarbonisation journey,” Rumi Mahmood, Research Director at the MSCI Sustainability Institute, tells ESG Investor.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

Financial institutions and market participants will be able to refer to a common set of definitions under the CGT to facilitate sustainable development in markets covered by the CGT. This includes the basis for identifying, selecting, managing, and reporting on expenditures financed with green bonds. degree celsius (1.5°C)

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2024

ESMA also recommended the establishment of a product categorization system for sustainable and transition investments, to help investors understand financial products’ sustainability characteristics and simplify product selection.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In its semi-annual Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities (TRV) report, ESMA notes the need for “significant public and private sector financing” to achieve the EU Green Deal objectives and support the green transformation of the economy. leading to increasing caution towards ESG investing and shareholder engagement.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Although China – through the Green Bond Endorsed Projects Catalogue – Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand all exclude gas financing, most Asian taxonomies are more permissive in that regard. However, most other taxonomies in the region recognise that sustainable investments must meet climate goals and facilitate economic transformation.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Although China – through the Green Bond Endorsed Projects Catalogue – Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand all exclude gas financing, most Asian taxonomies are more permissive in that regard. However, most other taxonomies in the region recognise that sustainable investments must meet climate goals and facilitate economic transformation.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A statement from 150 global financial institutions with US$24 trillion in AUM backed a “robust” GBF that provided a clear mandate for the alignment of financial flows, supported the disclosure of nature-related risks, impacts and dependencies, and outlined clear targets and definitions to enable the development of nature-positive projects.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness, responsible for financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union, told this October’s EU Sustainable Investment Summit taxonomies are critical to “identify environmentally sustainable investments and to increase transparency on sustainability”.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

She cited the massive growth of ESG initiatives as a great achievement but was wary of the lack of democratized data that can clearly define certain ESG investments as sustainable. Right now] ESG is basically a box of chocolates; you don’t know what you are going to get,” said Pretorius.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 26, 2025

Leo Donnachie, Senior Policy Manager Sustainable Finance at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), thinks this will force many more companies that would otherwise be submitting taxonomy-aligned reports out of scope. The taxonomy is a fundamental cornerstone of the EUs sustainable investing framework, he said.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

These regulatory moves are necessary for China to compete on the international stage on ESG, according to Dr Guo Peiyuan, Chairman of SynTao Green Finance, the founding organisation of China Sustainable Investment Forum (ChinaSIF).

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