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EU Taxonomy - reminder on who, what and when

26 Feb 2020
2 min.

Following the political agreement  last December between the European Parliament and the Council, the Regulation on “the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment”, the so-c...

Aviation’s climate footprint, investors' wake-up call to action

26 Feb 2020
2 min.

The aviation industry has been under growing scrutiny from public opinion because of the carbon footprint of its operations which grew globally at an annual rate of 2.8% between 2008 and 2018 acco...

ECBC to set minimum standards for Energy Efficiency Covered Bonds

26 Feb 2020
1 min.

According to Environmental Finance, the European Covered Bond Council (ECBC) is currently working on market initiatives which will set minimum standards for Covered Bond issuances to be eligible fo...

European Green Deal: Putting words into action

04 Feb 2020
1 min.

On the occasion of the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Ursula von der Leyen showcased the Green Deal announced last month by the European Commission, stating that it constituted the European ...

Rising risk on the financing of fossil fuels?

04 Feb 2020
9 min.

COP 25’s failure to have the World’s major economies revise upwards their CO2 emissions reduction targets filled in Paris in 2015 at the COP21 (see Morning line issue of 05/12/2019: Deciphering th...

Water economy: deciphering the challenges, financing the opportunities

22 Jan 2020
1 min.

 The following research report draws on the basic fact that there can be no life without water. When scientists search for inhabitable planets, the very first question they ask when gazing into the...

Taking a deep dive in IEA’s 2019 World Energy Outlook

14 Jan 2020
7 min.

 
As we highlighted in a recent focus (see Deciphering the daunting challenges of COP25), the main underlying goal of the ongoing COP25 summit in Madrid is to have the world’s main economies indiv...

Brown industries: the Transition Tightrope

07 Jan 2020
2 min.

Climate finance will fail in its mission if it continues to leave high emitting industries on its sidelines but a robust approach is necessary. During the whole of 2019, Natixis Green & Sustai...

TEG 101 - EU Climate Benchmarks

21 Nov 2019
7 min.

Natixis Green & Sustainable Hub is delighted to share with you its EU Climate Benchmarks special report: “Reality and consistency check”
 
Published on September 30th, the EU TEG Report on Ben...

Why we need a shaded taxonomy from green to brown and in between

28 Oct 2019
4 min.

As a part of The European Files magazine on sustainable finance, Natixis shared its position on the European Union's work.

“Favouring or penalizing specific assets on the basis of environmental c...

Complementarity between gas and power assets amid transitioning energy systems

14 Oct 2019
5 min.

Ivan Pavlovic, Radek Jan
Executive summary
 
•   The reflection into the possible complementarity between gas assets and electricity assets fits into initiatives that have been launched to combat ...

Christine Lagarde sees climate change as “mission critical” for the ECB and opens the door to EU taxonomy-based asset purchases programs

11 Sep 2019
11 min.

Climate change was extensively discussed during C. Lagarde’s nomination hearing 
Climate change emerged as an influential topic during the public hearing of Ms. Christine Lagarde by the European...

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