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The European Green Bond Standard: a future gold standard for green bond issuance?

30 Nov 2021
13 min.

10-minute read
 
On 6 July 2021, the European Commission unveiled its Proposal for a Regulation on the European Green Bond Standard (EU GBS). Most of its requirements follow market practices. To b...

A fury of Sustainable Finance announcements in the European Union

29 Jul 2021
19 min.

In July, a multitude of legislative proposals and strategies related to sustainable finance have been announced by the European Commission and the European Central Bank...

The European Commission adopts an ambitious Sustainable Finance package including the long-awaited Taxonomy Delegated Acts

29 Apr 2021
11 min.

9-minute read
 
On April 21, the European Commission ratified the EU Climate Law Regulation [1], setting a legally binding goal to cut GHG emissions by at least 55% [2] by 2030 compared to 1990 le...

The European Union's plunge in the Social Bonds Market

30 Nov 2020
9 min.

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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...

The European Commission released draft Delegated Act of the Taxonomy criteria

30 Nov 2020
6 min.

- 5-minute read - 
 
On November 20, 2020 the European Commission published the long-awaited Draft Delegated Act under the Taxonomy Regulation[1], on climate change mitigation and climate change a...

Historic deal reached on the EU recovery package and budget

29 Jul 2020
8 min.

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...

Covid-19 crisis in Europe: a midwife for a federalist green & social leap forward

12 Jun 2020
18 min.

A new chapter of history textbooks is being written in Europe and the pen could be green and social. The once politically inconceivable measures could become a reality. Taboos fall one after anot...

EU draft delegated acts on Climate Benchmarks and ESG disclosure regulations: what is divergent from the TEG Final Report?

04 May 2020
3 min.

Following the publication of the EU TEG Report on Benchmarks in September 2019, the European Commission (EC) has published three consultations on draft delegated regulations for ESG Disclosure and...

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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