Taxonomy

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On the brink of a decisive vote in the European Parliament on Nuclear integration in the EU taxonomy, the International Energy Agency published a 95-page report on Nuclear Power an...

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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 mu...

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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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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...

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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 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...

In the field of sustainable finance, guidelines and standards are the bedrock of product design and market integrity. Private investing and funding strategies need anchoring definitions and undispu...

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Following our recent article “Sustainable Taxonomy development worldwide: a standard-setting race between competing jurisdictions” (July 2021), we have just released our dedicated ...

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On July 12, the Platform on Sustainable Finance published two draft reports about a social taxonomy proposal and an extension of the current green taxonomy to significantly harmful...

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...

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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...

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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...

Editorial
Within a year, unprecedented efforts allowed to deliver a sort of “encyclopedia” of sustainability. Fortunately, the 414-page report released on June 18 by the Technical Expert Group on...

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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...

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...

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...

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The European Commission’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance has published two landmark reports on March 9. Natixis Green and Sustainable Hub is currently thoroughl...

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...