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

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”. What’s in a name?

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It remains to be seen whether the FCA insists that firms link gaps with the requirements to prevent harm under this year’s consumer duty measures, and require firms to provide adequate evidence to indicate proper due diligence in avoiding intentional greenwashing.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

trillion, prompting industry insiders to express doubt about how such a huge run-up could happen without greenwashing. This was triggered in part by stiff anti-greenwashing proposals from the U.S. European asset managers struck US$140 billion from ‘dark green’ investment category. green investment.

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