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  • Use our Taxonomy as a framework for economic recovery, urges EU's TEG

    27 April 2020

    Policy makers and the private sector have been urged to use the tools developed as part of the EU's sustainable finance action plan to guide the rebuilding of economy following the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis.

  • Updated EU taxonomy unveiled

    09 March 2020

    The proposed taxonomy of green activities that will underpin the EU's Sustainable Finance Action Plan was updated and expanded today - and now includes criteria for climate adaptation activities.

  • Framework for SDG disclosures unveiled by accounting bodies

    17 January 2020

    Broad recommendations for disclosures based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been billed as "a new approach to address sustainable development issues".

  • EU agrees "balanced" compromise Taxonomy deal

    17 December 2019

    The EU secured compromise on the Taxonomy to define what constitutes a green investment late Monday

  • IASB clarifies climate expectations as Big Four face investor scrutiny

    29 November 2019

    The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has clarified its expectations on disclosure of climate-related risks, as it emerged that a group of investors had pressured the Big Four accounting firms to focus more on climate.

  • Bioenergy, agriculture and forestry groups lament EU Taxonomy criteria

    24 October 2019

    The “regrettable divergence” of the EU sustainability taxonomy’s criteria from existing European renewable energy regulation has been criticised by a group of industry associations.

  • ESG data files: Part five - the impact of the EU's taxonomy

    04 October 2019

    Will the EU's sustainability taxonomy reduce the reporting burden on companies, or could it be another weight on their shoulders? Michael Hurley reports

  • Will the taxonomy deliver?

    12 July 2019

    Will the EU's taxonomy succeed in boosting the flow of finance to a low-carbon economy, asks Elena K Johansson

  • Taxonomy says no to nuclear but yes to some cars and fossil fuels

    18 June 2019

    The taxonomy of climate-related activities released today is expected to prove "an important building block" in the creation of a sustainable financial system.

  • EU’s TEG unveils final reports in milestone moment for sustainable finance

    18 June 2019

    In what has been billed a landmark moment for sustainable finance, a far-reaching set of recommendations for a taxonomy of sustainability economic activities, an EU Green Bond Standard and climate-themed benchmark indexes has been published.