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Seven sustainable finance predictions for 2025

Corporate Knights

But these dropped precipitously starting in 2022, when central banks ramped up interest rates, the Ukraine war drove up energy prices, and Europe established more stringent anti-greenwash fund-disclosure rules. By the second quarter of 2024, Morningstar estimates that net inflows had dropped to US$6.3

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Take Five: Is Your Cup Half-full or Half-empty?

Chris Hall

Confirmation of a January 2027 start for a UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism was welcomed as providing certainty to investors over its scope. But overall, the first Labour budget for 15 years was far from an exemplar of the joined-up approach advocated by former Climate Change Committee chair Lord Deben , with the £3.4

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

Republicans; IOSCO calls on regulators to integrate new ISSB sustainability disclosure rules; India announces ESG fund disclosure & investment rules; Walmart, PepsiCo invest in sustainable agriculture; SAP asks suppliers to report emissions; Vanguard hit with greenwashing suit in Australia; Canada phasing out government fossil fuel financing; Goldman (..)

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CSRD Update: Impacted Businesses and How To Prepare for Mandatory Reporting

3BL Media

 This latest move, meant to end greenwashing and empower the European Union’s (EU) social market economy, requires companies to disclose environmental, social and governance matters that align with the EU’s climate goals. SMEs can opt out until 2028.

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Nature charities publish market principles in bid to combat greenwashing

Envirotec Magazine

With an estimated £6 billion annual funding gap for UK nature recovery across land and sea, the UK Government has set an ambitious target to grow annual private investment in nature by at least £500 million by 2027, rising to over £1 billion by 2030. The nature market principles are an important step in tackling this.

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New Climate Policy Bills in California Herald Sweeping Changes for Businesses

3BL Media

It will also require the disclosure of Scope 3 emissions starting in 2027 for the prior fiscal year, in accordance with guidance provided by the GHG Protocol. Scope 3 assurance requirements will be determined by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in 2027. Read here for a simple breakdown of what Scope 3 GHG emissions are.)

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UK Nature Market Principles Offer Regulatory “Stop-gap” 

Chris Hall

The Principles, which cover credits, are designed to pre-empt UK government regulation, as concerns about greenwashing grow. Alexander told ESG Investor that the Nature Market Principles would act as a “stop-gap” until robust regulation and standards are developed.