Corporate Knights

MARCH 7, 2023

The European Union, China, the United Kingdom and about 20 other countries are developing such taxonomies as a way of discouraging greenwashing and channelling investment to the climate transition. The EU’s taxonomy has been particularly controversial because of its inclusion of natural gas and nuclear as “green investments.”

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Investors have been in limbo for six months about the future of the regulation, which provides guidelines on the disclosures required of green investment vehicles. ESMA is expected to publish further SFDR guidance and a Q&A document next year.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Finally, it is expected that the FCA will issue a policy statement document for its Sustainable Disclosure Regime (SDR) following on from earlier publications of DP21/04 and CP22/20. A status update was published on 27 July 2023 stating that the final version of the disclosure framework could become available as early as October 2023.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

document states: “This next round of national climate plans … will be amongst the most important policy documents produced this century”. degrees Celsius. Anything else will be catastrophic. As a recent U.N. The climate space urgently needs more of the qualities that women leadership can bring.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Asset managers decide to re-label existing funds as green investment vehicles for two reasons, according to Paul Lacroix, Head of Structuring at Smart Beta specialist investment firm Ossiam, an affiliate of Natixis. The first is client demand for investment solutions that are ESG-based,” he tells ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The summit’s delegates and documentation admitted there was little new on the agenda, consensus having been reached on the need to reform the global financial architecture , but were consistent in their calls for “a political push to achieve sufficiently ambitious outcomes”.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2023

IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee said it would become “a fundamental policy document for shaping climate action in the remainder of this pivotal decade”. Taxed by taxonomies – While we at least now know the UK taxonomy won’t be following the science , similar frameworks to guide green investment are further advanced elsewhere.

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