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Extended Taxonomy: acknowledging “in betweenness” to soften elitism

03 Jun 2022
7 min.

6 - minute read
 
The Platform’s March 2022 recommendations on extending the Taxonomy [1] are timely and meaningful but unlikely to be politically endorsed [2]. Nonetheless, market participants m...

The clash between sovereignty and sustainability?

24 Mar 2022
18 min.

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...

The EU Social Taxonomy Draft: promising buildings blocks

16 Jun 2021
23 min.

20-minute read
 
The 53-page Draft Report on “Social Taxonomy” from the Sustainable Finance Platform Subgroup recently leaked. To our great surprise, it offers an already sophisticated approach a...

A new wave of climate targets from the EU, US, Canada, Japan and the UK following the Leaders Summit on Climate

29 Apr 2021
4 min.

4-minute read
 
On April 22 and 23, a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate gathering 40 world leaders took place at the initiative of the US President. On this occasion, some of them announced new cl...

The European Union's plunge in the Social Bonds Market

30 Nov 2020
9 min.

- 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...

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