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Taxonomy users told to get creative to maximise its transition planning potential
24 April 2024The EU taxonomy of sustainable activities can help formulate climate transition plans in ways it is currently not being widely used, according to members of a European Commission-mandated expert group.
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EU Platform snubs SLBs in its climate investment stocktake
05 April 2024Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) are set to be omitted from a stocktake of sustainable capital flows in the EU, highlighting doubts about the materiality and ambition of the targets used by the instruments.
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EU expert group to examine how to hardwire taxonomy into transition plans
29 January 2024An EU-mandated expert group is to advise the EU how criteria from its sustainability taxonomy can be "systematically integrated" to improve comparability and credibility of organisations' climate transition plans.
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EU Platform begins transition plan work as it denies EU neglects issue
29 January 2024A commonly held perception that the EU's sustainable finance framework does not support 'transition' activities is "wrong", the chair of an independent EU advisory group has said, as it begins work on what good transition plans look like.
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Call for EU to create 'taxonomy-aligning' benchmarks
13 December 2023The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance has proposed 'taxonomy-aligning' benchmarks that would select constituents based on the percentage of their investments in activities aligned with the EU's taxonomy.
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How to complete the EU's taxonomy
27 July 2023The creation of two types of sustainable investment will bring clarity to where transition investment needs to be focused, Helena Viñes Fiestas tells Michael Hurley
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EU Platform announces data, taxonomy working group leads
20 April 2023Representatives of Axa Investment Managers and SEB have been appointed to lead groups in the EU Platform on data, usability and monitoring capital flows towards sustainable investments.
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Matthey appointed rapporteur for EU taxonomy working group
08 March 2023Astrid Matthey has been appointed rapporteur of the EU Platform's technical working group, as the second iteration of the Platform met for the first time.