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Sofidel: The Forum for Sustainable Finance

3BL Media

How high is the risk of greenwashing? As interest in environmental, social and governance sustainability has grown, so as the risk of greenwashing. As ESMA , the European Securities and Markets Authority, also notes, greenwashing harms investors who want to allocate their resources to sustainable economic activities.

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GSSS: A Direct Path to a Just Transition

Chris Hall

Social bond issuance picked up significantly in 2020 as governments implemented large support programmes and allocated bond proceeds to address the health crisis caused by Covid-19. Tapping the growing GSSS bond market can help plug that gap, while presenting investors with compelling risk-return potential.

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Managers’ Eyes on SFDR Prize

Chris Hall

Combined, the regulation is designed to help European asset owners understand, compare and measure the sustainability characteristics of investment funds, limiting their exposure to greenwashing. . “We There may be areas where we may need to take further action, if we notice that there is a real risk and reality of greenwashing.

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How to Build a Sustainable Future

Chris Hall

While progress was uneven, it was achieved against a radically changing geopolitical backdrop, and reinforced by moves in the US to mandate climate risk disclosures by corporates and discourage greenwashing by fund providers. It might not be perfect, but perhaps we should not expect it to be. Inherently political”.

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Roundtable: In Pursuit of Value, not Values

Chris Hall

The likely challenges to SEC’s climate risk disclosure rule reflects a wider anti-ESG backlash, partly fuelled by the scepticism that accompanies greenwashing scandals, but also driven by the culture wars between conservatives and liberals that have characterised US politics in recent years. Curbing greenwashing. Anti-ESG backlash.