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EU countries failing to transpose CSRD risk increasing costs of compliance, observers say

EU countries yet to confirm transposition of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) into national law are raising the risk of increased costs of compliance - particularly those linked to gaining independent assurance of reports, observers have said.

Investors have 'sleepless nights' over net zero targets tied to estimated data

Institutional investors lose sleep over net zero targets for which progress reporting is tied to huge volumes of estimated data, particularly data relating to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from a company's value chain, a conference heard.

Helping banks measure the carbon savings of energy efficiency projects

The quality and tradability of energy saving assets depends on the quality of the measurement and verification process, writes Denis Tanguay

Loan round-up: Northvolt, Lugoj Municipality, Attendo ... and more

India paves way for voluntary carbon market

India has paved the way for a domestic voluntary carbon market by introducing voluntary offsets as part of its upcoming compliance market.

Bond round-up: Mamoura, France, Uruguay ... and more

Pension funds lead $1.2bn battery storage investment

ESMA fund names risk repeating SFDR chaos, warns investment group

Guidelines on the sustainability terminology that can be used in EU fund names risk re-running the confusion that surrounded the bloc's disclosure regime for funds, an investment group warned.

Sustainable finance regulation 'needs to focus on transition'

Transforming financial regulation so it encourages decarbonisation objectives, rather than concentrating only on the 'greenest' activities, must become the focus of regulators, an Environmental Finance webinar heard.

ESMA, ISS ESG to discuss the future of sustainable finance regulation

The ways in which sustainable finance regulation can evolve to help investors more efficiently channel investments to support the transition to net zero is to be discussed on an Environmental Finance webinar.