Volgens de Club van Rome gaat de nieuwste financieringsstrategie van de Europese Commissie – “Strategie voor de financiering van de overgang naar een duurzame economie” – niet ver genoeg om het Europese financiële systeem te veranderen om de transformatie van […]
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The European Commission has today adopted a number of measures to increase its level of ambition on sustainable finance. First, the new Sustainable Finance Strategy sets out several initiatives to tackle climate change, and other environmental challenges, while increasing investment – and […]
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Sustainalytics, a Morningstar Company and a leading global provider of ESG research, ratings, and data, today launched its EU Taxonomy Solution, which provides institutional investors with detailed insights into the environmentally sustainable activities of companies based on the EU Taxonomy […]
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European investors are choosing greener stocks even if it means lower returns, according to JRC research published today. Investors are also considering transparency on environmental reporting when choosing where to invest. The JRC experts identified a ‘greenness and transparency factor’ […]
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GSES Systems is een erkend geautomatiseerd platform om organisaties, producten en projecten te beoordelen, verifiëren, en certificeren op basis van hun duurzaamheidsprestaties. Vandaag kondigt GSES met trots aan dat ze uitbreiden met hun nieuwe Taxonomy rating platform-extensie. Deze digitale tool […]
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The European Commission has published the EU Taxonomy Compass, which provides a visual representation of the content of the EU Taxonomy starting with the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act. The EU Taxonomy Compass provides a visual representation of the contents of […]
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Begin juni heeft de Europese Commissie de uitwerking van de Europese Taxonomie ten aanzien van klimaatmitigatie en -adaptatie formeel aangenomen. Staatssecretaris Yeşilgöz (EZ) gaat in een Kamerbrief in op nut en noodzaak van zo’n taxonomie. Nederland blijft via de Member […]
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Het NCP heeft de melding van de vakbonden IUF, EFFAT-IUF, SEIU en UGT over een vermeende schending van de OESO-richtlijnen door APG Asset Management, ontvankelijk verklaard. De melding gaat over vermeend gender gerelateerd geweld en intimidatie binnen verschillende vestigingen van […]
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EFAMA has published its response to the joint European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) consultation on taxonomy-related sustainability disclosures in the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). EFAMA finds that there is a need for full consistency between taxonomy alignment metrics used by financial undertakings for […]
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The Commission published a call for public feedback on the content, methodology and presentation of information that large financial and non-financial undertakings should disclose concerning their environmentally sustainable economic activities. The Commission has recently adopted an EU taxonomy – a classification system, establishing […]
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Sinds enkele weken kan elke grote onderneming of investeerder in de EU Taxonomie nakijken welke eigen activiteiten ‘duurzaam’ mogen heten. Maar de spelregels zijn complex, niet iedereen begrijpt ze nog. Bovendien zijn er enkele hoge politieke hobbels. De ‘zandweg’ naar […]
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Keynote speech by Frank Elderson, Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board and Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the conference on “The Role of Banks in Greening Our Economies” organised by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development […]
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