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Navigating the sea of proposed climate-related disclosures: A deep dive into the SEC’s, ISSB’s and EFRAG’s proposals

03 Jun 2022

20 - minute read

Executive summary
On March 21st, 2022, the American financial watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), proposed rule changes that would require registrants [1] to ...

Greenflation, the new normal?

03 Jun 2022

13 - minute read

The war in Ukraine is feeding the inflationary spiral. If the second half of 2021 was marked by inflation prompted by the global success of stimulus plans to recover from the pan...

The clash between sovereignty and sustainability?

24 Mar 2022

16 - minute read
 
As bombs are falling on Kyiv, Europe’s gas dependency towards Russia could never have felt so pungent. The COVID-19 pandemic and the all-out war against Ukraine shed light on th...

EU-China Common Ground Taxonomy, a painkiller to taxonomy headaches?

30 Nov 2021

10-minute read
 
On November 4, 2021, the International Platform on Sustainable Finance (IPSF)[1] taxonomy working group unveiled the “EU-China Common Ground Taxonomy - Climate Change Mitigation (...

Banks’ prudential requirements: towards a comprehensive integration of ESG risks into the EU prudential framework

30 Nov 2021

20-minute read
 
On October 27th, the awaited review of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) and of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) proposal was released by the European Commission w...

Fit for 55: bringing EU’s decarbonisation efforts to the next level

29 Jul 2021

21-minute read
 
On 14 July, the European Commission adopted a set of 13 proposals, the so-called “Fit for 55 package”, to make the EU's climate, energy, transport and taxation policies commensura...

The sustainable finance disclosure regulation (SFDR): enhancing clarity on sustainable investment products

24 Feb 2021

7-minute read
 
The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is one of the key pillars of the European Commission’s 2018 Sustainable Finance legislative package. It came into force in Dece...

The European Union's plunge in the Social Bonds Market

30 Nov 2020

- 9-minute read -
 
The Covid-19 pandemic and widespread lockdown measures have severely slowed down the economies of many countries around the world. European real GDP is now projected to contrac...

Historic deal reached on the EU recovery package and budget

29 Jul 2020

6-minute read
 
On July 21 2020, following a marathon EU-summit in Brussels, the European Council, composed of the leader of the EU’s 27 Member States, agreed on ambitious post-Covid Recovery Pla...

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