Regulation

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Monetary policy tightening, responding to 2022’s inflationary spike, could hinder the green transition. Interest rates and raw material price increase create new barriers to low-c...

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Details were released late September on how ECB’s green QE would work. The titling of bonds purchasing program focuses on climate change mitigation and began to apply to corporat...

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Last June the European Parliament and Council agreed on a final text [1] for the corporate sustainability reporting directive (CSRD), that will update the 2014 Non-Financial Rep...

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The vote in the European Parliament was expected to be tight as a cross-party coalition from the left to center-right was opposing the taxonomy complementary delegated act on nu...

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The EU-China Common Ground Taxonomy (CGT) has received plenty of attention from international capital markets and policymakers since its initial release in November 2021. Some As...

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On May 25th, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed changes to rules and reporting forms to establish disclosure requirements for funds and...

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Proposed by the European Commission on July 6th, 2021[1], the final negotiation phase of the European Green Bond Standard (EU GBS) has begun but several conten...

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

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On March 30th, 2022, the Platform on Sustainable Finance (hereafter PSF or the Platform) published its final report containing technical screening criteria (TSC) for the four rem...

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In line with the Taxonomy Regulation [1] and following the European Commission’s request, the Platform on Sustainable Finance (hereafter the “Platform”) published its final repo...

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On January 24th, 2022, the European Banking Authority (EBA) released standards setting out requirements for European banks’ reporting on key Environmental, Social and Governance...

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On February 10th, 2022, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) released its Sustainable Finance Roadmap for the period 2022-2024[1]. This blueprint aims at coordin...

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The European Commission recently shared the long-awaited draft of the Taxonomy criteria for nuclear and gas with Member States and the Platform on Sustainable Finance[1]. The t...

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Last December, the French financial watchdogs have released two reports delving into the climate change related commitments, disclosure, and actual actions of French corporates, ...

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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 (...

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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...

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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...

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In August 2021, the European Commission, released a report[1] based on a study carried out by BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory on the integration of ESG objectives into EU bank...