Archive

• NBIM urges closer alignment of CSRD with ISSB standards

  20 February 2025

  Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has encouraged the EU to change its Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) standards to "move to actual alignment with the global baseline" of International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards.

• Lay the foundations before building: ISSB standards as the Global Baseline

  12 November 2024

  Investors need national regulators to rapidly adopt ISSB standards without removing key concepts or requirements, writes Nathan Fabian

• Misguided antitrust arguments must not diminish the transition

  08 August 2023

  For institutional investors to fully support the energy transition they must not be discouraged from collaborative efforts by antitrust regulation, says Nathan Fabian

• CSRD materiality opt-out risks undermining EU's sustainable finance package, warns CDP

  06 July 2023

  Proposals for corporate disclosure rules that could allow companies to opt-out of providing sustainability-related information risk undermining the objectives of the EU's broader sustainable finance package, according to an executive at CDP.

• EU opens applications for new sustainable finance expert group

  13 October 2022

  The European Commission has launched a call for applications to join the Platform on Sustainable Finance ahead of a new mandate for the expert group starting in 2023.

• EU expert group launch 'call to action' to improve taxonomy usability

  11 October 2022

  The Platform for Sustainable Finance (PSF) has published a pair of reports on the data, usability and application of 'minimum safeguards' requirements of the EU Taxonomy, which its chair described as a "call to action" for the European Commission on "improving usability" for the landmark 'green' legislation.

• NGOs resign from 'politicised' EU Platform on sustainable finance

  15 September 2022

  Several members of the EU's Platform on sustainable finance have filed a notice of their resignation following the furore around the inclusion of nuclear in the taxonomy of sustainable activities.

• EU Platform social taxonomy overhaul tackles practical difficulties

  28 February 2022

  A final report on an EU taxonomy of social factors has been published that seeks to establish a common structure with the existing environmental taxonomy by reining in initial proposals deemed too costly and complicated.

• Commission risks undermining taxonomy regulation, warns EU Platform

  24 January 2022

  European Commission proposals that would allow some nuclear and natural gas to be labelled as sustainable risk undermining fundamental precepts of the EU taxonomy regulation and should be reworked into an entirely new framework, an expert group appointed by the EU has warned.

• Transition, social taxonomy reports delayed to 2022

  13 December 2021

  The publication of reports exploring how the EU could extend its sustainability taxonomy to cover 'transition' activities, and a separate document studying a potential taxonomy of social activities, has been postponed until 2022.