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Early March, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) — the EBA, the ESMA and the EIOPA [1]— submitted their advice to the European Commission regarding new KPIs that would mea...
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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...
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The Swedish Central will reportedly purchase more green bonds in its asset purchasing programs. At the end of last year, Sweden’s Central Bank (the “Riksbank”) announced its intent...
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The French Directorate-General of the Treasury handed a report to the Parliament on a climate strategy for public export financing last October. Through amendments to the 2021...
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In November, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak made numerous announcements related to sustainable finance, as part of the UK’s plan to bolster the dynamism, open...
Following the publication of ICMA’s Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles (SLBP) in June 2020 (see our July article), a few inaugural issuances of this new product were observed on the market re...
Since COP21, the French authorities have positioned themselves at the forefront of a thriving sustainable finance market. As of 2015, two labels were created, the SRI Label for ESG funds carried b...
The Sciences Based Targets initiatives (SBTi) and Assessing low-Carbon Transition (ACT) have simultaneously developed transition methodologies for the Oil & Gas (O&G) industry. This builds...
Concerns about the agricultural and forestry sectors grow within the investment sphere as they are considered to account for approximately 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a huge...
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 Plan. It brings to ...
On June 9, 2020, the International Capital Market Association (ICMA)’s Green & Social Bond Principles published a new set of voluntary process guidelines for the debt capital market related ...
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...
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...
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...
The European Union has not shown any slack in its drive for a more sustainable financial system in spite of the Covid-19-related crisis. In the search for solutions and new regulatory measures th...
In a context of strong growth of sustainable investment funds and a few months after the setup of a dedicated sustainable finance commission, the French AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers) has m...
On March 9th, the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG) published its final reports to the EU Commission on the Green Taxonomy. 3 documents were released: the “Taxonomy: Final report...
Following the political agreement last December between the European Parliament and the Council, the Regulation on “the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment”, the so-c...
