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Taxonomy-Aligned CapEx Grows Amid Heterogeneous Transition

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance has published a report on Monitoring Capital Flows to Sustainable Investments. The Platform on Sustainable...

PRI Warns Omnibus Proposal Goes Too Far

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the end of February, the European Commission's (EC) announced its Omnibus legislative proposal to simplify the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...

Do Omnibus Proposals Shred EU’s Sustainability Regulations?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - After much anticipation, the European Commission (EC) formally proposed a new package of simplified EU sustainability rules, specifically pertaining to the...

SEC Stifles Corporate Engagement

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Institutional investors’ stewardship of United States (US) investee companies has been thrown into disarray by changes in Securities and Exchange Commission...

Commission Publishes Controversial First Omnibus Details

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In November 2024, following the publication of a competitiveness report by Mario Draghi, ex-Italian prime minister and ex-President of the ECB,...

EU Mulls New Sustainable Fund Classification

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Since the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) became applicable in 2021, what was intended as a reporting framework gradually took...

EU Financial Regulators Tackle Disasters and Stress Tests

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As climate change triggers more intense and frequent extreme weather events such as heatwaves, storms, floods, and droughts, homeowners are becoming...

Could ESMA’s Fund Naming Guidelines Cause Divestments?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The name of financial products can seem like a superficial issue for sustainable investors. However, given limited time, resources and attention...

EU Tackles Packaging Waste Mountain

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The European Union (EU) moved a step closer towards tackling the 80 million tonnes of packaging waste it generates each year,...

European Parliament Approves Nature Restoration Law

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On February 27th, the European Parliament adopted the Nature Restoration Law, which hopes to restore 20% of EU’s land and sea....

Swedish FSA Inspects Taxonomy Implementation

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The EU’s Taxonomy Regulation, the pioneering classification system defining sustainable economic activities and one of the cornerstones of the union’s Action...

Who’s Afraid of CSDDD

On 14 December, the European Council and Parliament reached a provisional deal on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Given the legislation’s long...

Make Your (Taxonomy) Voice Heard!

Stockholm (NordSIP) – On 18 October, the Platform on Sustainable Finance, together with the European Commission, launched the long-awaited EU Taxonomy Stakeholder Request Mechanism....

European Parliament Backs ESRS

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the adoption of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) by the European Commission on July 31st 2023, the European Parliament...

Protecting EU Consumers against Greenwashing

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Addressing the risk of greenwashing is undoubtedly a priority for EU regulators these days. On 19 September, the European Parliament and...

Have Your Say on SFDR

Stockholm (NordSIP) – It has been over two years since the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) was first introduced. In December last year, the...

Transition Rules Set for EU’s Carbon ‘Tax’

Stockholm (NordSIP) – EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is becoming more tangible as the date for its debut draws closer. On 17 August,...

European Sustainability Reporting Standards Adopted

Stockholm (NordSIP) – As a four-week-long consultation period came to a close, on 31 July, the European Commission officially adopted the first set of...

Feedback Galore to ESAs Consultation on SFDR

Stockholm (NordSIP) – 4 July marked the deadline to respond to the SFDR consultation regarding principle adverse impact (PAI) and financial product disclosures launched...

EU Unveils New Green Package

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 13 June, the European Commission presented a new package of measures seeking to strengthen the union’s sustainable finance framework by...

ESRS Feedback Time

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 9 June, the European Commission published the widely anticipated draft delegated regulation supplementing the European Accounting Directive. The draft contains...

Progress (Reports) on Greenwashing

Stockholm (NordSIP) – In May last year, the European Commission issued a “Request for input related to greenwashing risks and the supervision of sustainable...

EU Parliament Approves Key Climate Legislation

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The EU’s flagship climate policy package ‘Fit for 55’, the ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55%...

EU Regulators Propose Amendments to SFDR

Stockholm (NordSIP) - About a year ago, the European Commission tasked the three European Supervisory Authorities - The European Banking Authority (EBA), The European...

‘Taxo 4’ Is Out and Needs Your Feedback

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The upcoming Easter holidays just got slightly more interesting, and busier, for sustainable finance professionals following the developments around the EU’s...

Maximising Impact of Article 9 Funds

In recent years, the EU has launched some truly innovative and ambitious regulatory initiatives, from the EU Taxonomy, to the SFDR and MiFID II,...

Greenwashers Beware: EU’s New Green Claims Directive

Stockholm (NordSIP) – A commitment to tackling false environmental claims by ensuring buyers receive reliable, comparable, and verifiable information has always been at the...

A New Green Bond Standard Is Born

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The EU regulation on green bonds has been long in the making. Finally, on 28 February, the European Parliament negotiators, spearheaded...

EU Social Taxonomy: A Year On

Stockholm (NordSIP) – A whole year has passed since the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF) submitted its final proposal for a social taxonomy framework...

Mixed Responses to ESMA Consultation on Fund Names

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Fund names are a powerful marketing tool, and incorporating keywords such as ‘ESG’ or ‘Sustainable’ in the name of a fund...

Timing Sets For New Reporting Standards

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Sometimes it is easier to work to a hard deadline.  With that in mind the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) decided...

Time to Zoom in on EU CSDDD

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) voted on 24 January in favour of the report on Corporate...

EFRAG Agrees on First Set of Reporting Standards

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The contours of the EU sustainability reporting framework are rapidly becoming sharper and more precise. Last week, the European Parliament adopted...

EU Parliament Adopts CSRD

Stockholm (NordSIP) – On 10 November, the EU Parliament adopted the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) with 525 votes in favour, 60 votes against...

No New Combustion-Engine Cars in EU by 2035

Stockholm (NordSIP) – As part of the European Commission’s wider ‘Fit for 55’ package to tackle global warming, last year, the EU announced a plan...

Unanimous ISSB Includes Scope 3 in Reporting Standards

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Identifying and measuring the indirect greenhouse gas emissions of a company’s entire value chain is, admittedly, challenging. For a long time,...

Platform on Sustainable Finance Offers More Advice

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF), the body of experts tasked with assisting the European Commission in developing the Taxonomy...

ESMA Guides on MiFID II

Stockholm (NordSIP) – It has hardly escaped the attention of European financial advisors that, according to the amended MiFID II framework, as of 2...

Experts Lose Confidence in EU Platform on Sustainable Finance

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Many of the members of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF), an expert group launched in 2020 to assist the...

Draft EU Sustainability Reporting Standards Get Eurosif’s Blessing

Stockholm (NordSIP) – It has been over a year since European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness officially requested the technical advice of the European Financial Reporting...

A Historic Climate Win in the U.S.

Stockholm (NordSIP) – In a dramatic turn of events, on 7 August, the U.S. Senate narrowly passed the Inflation Reduction Act, a USD 370...

MiFID II Goes Sustainable

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Starting this month, financial advisers in the EU have some new rules to adhere to. On 2 August 2022, the amended...

EC Regulation Containing RTS Goes Official

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Earlier this year, on 6 April, the European Commission formally adopted the consolidated regulatory technical standards (RTS) to the Sustainable Finance...

EU Committees Object to Calling Gas and Nuclear Green

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Discussions are heating up in Brussels ahead of the upcoming vote on the European Commission’s proposal to include specific nuclear and...

European Authorities Attempt to Clarify SFDR

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The start date for adopting the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) as laid out in the Delegated Regulation adopted by the...

EU Parliament Ready to Negotiate Green Bond Standards

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the proposal of the European Commission for a regulation on European green bonds in July 2021, the members of the...

EFRAG Proposes Double Materiality Disclosure Standards

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Late on Friday, 29 April, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) announced the release of the first draft of its widely...

Beyond Green EU Taxonomy

Stockholm (NordSIP) - It was in July last year that the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF) first recommended extending the EU Green Taxonomy beyond...

EU a Step Closer to a Social Taxonomy

Stockholm (NordSIP) – On 28 February, the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF) submitted its final proposal for a social taxonomy framework to the European...

EC Unveils New Corporate Sustainability Rules

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 23 February, the European Commission officially unveiled its long-awaited initiative on sustainable corporate governance. Abandoning the initial plans for a...

Gas and Nuclear Approved by EC

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The highly controversial draft Complementary Climate Delegated Act, enlisting certain nuclear and gas energy activities as part of the EU green...

Platform Raises Red Flag on Taxonomy Proposal

The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, a body of experts advising the European Commission on green finance, published on 24 January their official feedback on the draft Taxonomy proposal circulated by the Commission on the last day of 2021.

EIOPA Plans for the Future

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) officially unveiled earlier this month its three-year plan, which will help integrate sustainable...

EU Taxonomy, the First Act

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 9 December, the first part of the EU Taxonomy Climate delegated act was passed after the EU Council’s extended scrutiny...

Another Delay for SFDR Level 2

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Those waiting for more details and increased regulatory clarity regarding the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) will have to curb their...

The SFDR Fund Landscape

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Although it was not the intention of regulators, the implementation of the EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) led European fund...

ESAs Issue Recommendations for SFDR Disclosures

Stockholm (NordSIP) -The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) have published their Final Report with the draft Regulatory Technical Standards...

EU Makes Headway Towards Net-Zero Goal

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In an effort to keep track of the progress that the European Union (EU) is making towards reaching its net-zero goals,...

Regulatory Pressure Mounts on SFDR Disclosures

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the end of the first week of October, the Swedish Financial Services Authority (FSA), Finansinspektionen (FI), published a note describing...

Dutch Funds Need to Improve SFDR Reporting

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In a new report into the application of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets...

SPP Expert Sheds Light on Taxonomy’s Extensions

Stockholm (NordSIP) - This summer, while many Nordic investors were taking a well-deserved break and enjoying their holidays, the EU sustainable finance regulators kept...

EU Taxonomy Grows and Multiplies

Stockholm (NordSIP) - July has been a busy month so far for anyone involved in sustainable finance. The cornucopia of regulatory documents published by...

Social Taxonomy Proposal Unveiled

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Draft Proposal for a Social Taxonomy, developed by the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, was published officially on July 12th....

Lessons from an Early (Taxonomy) Bird

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Practical Briefings on EU Taxonomy webinar series, organised by the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance, have quickly become a Monday...

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