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The EU Clean Industrial Deal: towards reconciliation of economic competitiveness, strategic autonomy and decarbonization

15 Apr 2025
4 min.

The EU Clean Industrial Deal, introduced by the European Commission on February 26, 2025, emerges from a pressing need to enhance industrial competitiveness ...

The precarious future of the Inflation Reduction Act

14 Apr 2025
26 min.

Introduction
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law by President Joe Biden on 16 August, 2022. The act is a landmark legislative action that p...

EBA’s newly released transition plan guidelines

11 Apr 2025
3 min.

Introduction
Amid ongoing uncertainty surrounding the simplification of EU ESG regulations – including transition plan disclosure and implementation in CSRD ...

ESG ratings: at last regulated, at risk of growing competition with raw data

05 Nov 2024
27 min.

Introduction
In June 2024, the European Union definitively adopted a Regulation aimed at supervising ESG rating providers. The text is poised to enter into f...

SFDR 2: will 2024 open the age of maturity for sustainable finance regulations?

31 Jan 2024
12 min.

The year 2023 ended with the closing of a European Commission consultation on SFDR of unprecedented importance, that could open the age of sustainable fina...

The ISSB Sustainability Standards: Simple in words, complex in deeds

12 Dec 2023
2 min.

A first set of two sustainability disclosure standards (generic ESG and climate) was published by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) in ...

A new Taxonomy is born: insights on the Mexican Sustainable Taxonomy

11 May 2023
15 min.

Since the publication of our study the “New Geography of Taxonomies”, in July 2021, jurisdictions in Europe, Asia and the Americas have either begun or concl...

Taxo4: insights from the release of criteria for non-climate objectives

10 May 2023
7 min.

On April 5th, 2023, the European Commission (EC) published the long-awaited draft delegated acts (DAs) to the Taxonomy Regulation containing technical screen...

The Green Claims Directive proposal: the EU arms up against greenwashing

10 May 2023
15 min.

The European Commission (EC) has prompted surprise with the publication of a Green Claims Directive proposal[1] in the end of March 2023. Despite our forecas...

EUGBS: hurrah a political agreement… but no legislative transcription details yet

10 May 2023
8 min.

After months of political dead-end[1], market participants were relieved by the political agreement concluded between the Council and the Parliament on the E...

ECB's avenues to intensify climate action in quest “of punch”

08 Feb 2023
10 min.

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

CSRD, where are we at?

04 Nov 2022
22 min.

Last June the European Parliament and Council agreed on a final text [1] for the corporate sustainability reporting directive (CSRD), that will update the 20...

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