June 2020

On 29th May 2020, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) jointly issued the Draft for Public...

CICERO[1] is a research center for climate research and environmental science. Its subsidiary "CICERO Shades of Green Ltd" (thereafter CICERO) is one of the leading providers of second party opini...

Despite the unprecedented economic crisis triggered by covid-19 pandemic, financial regulators and supervisors do not lose sight of what many of them now consider a major long-term threat for fina...

As ESG investments are becoming mainstream, the market of impact investing is getting increasingly structured. Two recent initiatives have been set up recently to support impact data industrializa...

In the field of climate action, the past few months have been marked by major statements by Europe’s largest integrated Oil & Gas groups (BP, Eni, Repsol, Shell and Total). From Repsol last De...

Unédic issued its inaugural EUR4bn Social Bond (Nov-2026 OAT+36) on May 15, 2020, which represented the largest social bond ever issued worldwide for any type of issuer. On June 10th, the Agency i...

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...