ESG Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Providers of sustainable and ESG investment products in Europe should be required to follow specific ESG approaches, and provide products that meet certain environmental criteria, according to a series of proposals released today by France’s financial market regulator, The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF).

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For more than a decade, responsible investing in Canada experienced steady upward growth. A new report says that trend has reversed itself in the last two years, as the industry struggles to respond to allegations of greenwashing and a tougher regulatory environment. . More to be done on responsible investing.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, the practical application of these practices, particularly in the context of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), has revealed technical and regulatory challenges of great complexity. trillion (US$4.5

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ESG Today

MAY 30, 2024

More than 40% of investment funds in the EU using ESG or sustainability-related labels may be required to change names or sell assets in order to meet new anti-greenwashing rules, according to a new analysis released by sustainability technology platform Clarity AI.

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ESG Today

JULY 27, 2022

Regulators, and in particular the EU, have increased the level of disclosure as regards sustainable investing through the SFDR/Taxonomy/NFDR/CSRD etc. Firstly, they must categorise their products (article 6/8/9 [1] ). It doesn’t bode well and surely adds to the potential for greenwashing.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The FCA’s SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

Jordan Locke, a recruitment consultant in Acre's Global Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing Team, sat down with Business Insider alongside a group of industry experts to discuss the current ESG talent shortage, ‘greenwashing’ and the rapid pace of change. . Greenwashing kind of falls into that same skepticism.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The dramatic growth of sustainable portfolios has raised big questions for investors. Recent prominent media articles have warned of a bubble and criticized sustainable portfolios for being ineffective as agents of change. Sustainable investment funds are mushrooming. Regulation is never perfect.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The European Commissions DG FISMA has emphasised the merits of replacing the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR) existing Article 8 and Article 9 labels with formal categories based on clearer criteria. Therefore, replacing this current framework with actual categories with clear criteria is a possibility.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Anyve Arakelijan, Policy Advisor at EFAMA, explains how supervisors and service providers can bolster trust in sustainable investment products. Sustainable investing is still a relatively nascent industry, often lacking clear and comparable ESG criteria and the data required to assess these.

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Chris Hall

JULY 3, 2024

Fidelity International has made revisions to its sustainable investing framework to adjust to a changing ESG regulatory landscape, aiming to provide investors with greater transparency on its funds. ESG Target’ is the most robust of the three categories, and applies Article 8 and Article 9-classified SFF funds.

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3BL Media

JUNE 21, 2022

The answer going forward is Organic and Sustainable Agriculture with variety of criteria that we set forth in this article. Read Craig's full article here - [link]. Investors and consumers are waking up and beginning to ask tough questions of farm managers. The USDA Certified Organic standard meets these criteria today.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

But as these moves come under greater scrutiny and regulators and investors take action against greenwashing, could we see a knock-on effect of green hushing and bleaching cause a shrinking universe of options for ESG investors? Sustainable growth? It is not hard to see why offering sustainable investments is so appealing to companies.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Market participants flag importance of double materiality to enhance Article 8/9 definition alignment, stress need to recognise transition strategies. Risk of uncertainty French asset manager Mirova’s response said the current definition of Article 8 products is “too broad”, while the definition of Article 9 is “too narrow”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Research by the European regulator shows that ESG-related named fund s attract more inflows , raising concerns about potential greenwashing. Mazzacurati noted that the introduction of SFDR did lead to more extensive disclosure in investment fund documentation concerning ESG characteristics or sustainable investment objectives.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

European efforts to bring transparency to ESG funds haven’t addressed fears of greenwashing. Almost a year since the European Commission introduced the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the European investment community remains divided over how to classify the ESG risks and impacts of their investments.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 3, 2024

A rebound in Article 8 and 9 products over past year leaves sustainable funds accounting for the majority of the German market, according to Scope Ratings. This means the number and assets under management (AUM) of light green (Article 8) and dark green (Article 9) products had increased again so far this year.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2023

Despite recent attempts by lawmakers to provide more clarity on the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), fund managers are reluctant to reclassify their Article 8 funds back to Article 9 after a series of downgrades. Article 8 funds suffered most in Q2, with them witnessing net redemptions of €14.6

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Transition of Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation to a labelling regime will be ongoing and multi-faceted. It is anticipated that the ESMA fund rules will exclude a number of existing Article 8 and 9 funds due to the more stringent thresholds.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have issued a Call for Evidence to stakeholders on greenwashing. . The ESAs have also asked for any available data to help them gain a more concrete sense of the scale of greenwashing and areas of particularly high risk. .

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Following the launch of the consultation, Mairead McGuinness, Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Markets Union, said: “Sustainability information is key to empowering investors to make informed decisions on their investments.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2023

The European supervisory authorities (ESAs) and EU national competent authorities (NCAs) will need to build out their in-house resources and skill sets to effectively identify and handle instances of greenwashing by financial institutions, but greater guidance is recommended by observers rather than new waves of regulation.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

The global investment community is walking a “tightrope” between greenwashing and green blushing as it strives to stay abreast of regulatory developments that continuously ramp up accountability on sustainable investing, industry sources have sad. That pace of change is here to stay.”

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2023

The report said greenwashing as a key concern for asset owners, with asset managers “overstating or providing unclear messaging” on their level of commitment to sustainability. million) to over €6 billion – 57% of which possessed AuM between €1 billion and €5 billion.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Investors’ growing appetite for sustainable investments now places funds marketed as ESG at more than $2.7trn in AUM. Regulators have stepped in to root out greenwashing with enforcement actions and policy-making to clarify what is a sustainable investment based on factual data and more precise fund names.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2024

Inconsistency and Greenwashing Across the sector, the report cites inconsistent asset disclosure, lack of transparency around fossil fuel investments, and what it calls the “obfuscation” of terms like “green assets” and “transition assets” as factors that make it “nearly impossible” to assess pension funds’ performance.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Further, a lack of transparency around why a fund has been re-labelled as sustainable and the impact the new label has on the fund’s environmental-related characteristics or performance can ignite greenwashing concerns. Asset owners have told ESG Investor they will continue to closely scrutinise funds with new sustainable labels.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By Sustainable Fitch. Investor thirst for sustainable investments across all asset classes has seen fixed income issuance creation and supply skyrocket year-over-year to meet the demand. This comparison is essential to be able to execute investment strategies – exclusion, integration, tilt, best in class or impact.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2022

Alexander True, Business Partner at Sarasin, offers seven questions to help investors sort the green from the greenwashed. Investors’ desire to make a positive difference has driven huge inflows into strategies that make sustainability claims. Is your asset manager a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 27, 2023

Advisory group outlines its recommendations on addressing SFDR Article 9 downgrades and greenwashing regulatory uncertainty. However, the SMSG paper warned against ESMA sanctioning asset managers that have chosen to understate the sustainability credentials of their products by downgrading from Article 9 to 8.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Some ESG funds are surrendering their ‘deep green’ Article 9 label. One such, unheard of a few short years ago, is “greenwashing”, the practice of dressing up products, services or investments as being in full conformity with ESG principles – in contradiction of the underlying reality.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Industry experts have stressed the need for simplicity and clarity around Europe’s ESG fund labelling, as the European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) consultation deadline looms. The SDRs were due to be introduced on 30 June, but following various delays are now expected in H2 2024.

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Chris Hall

MAY 28, 2024

The European Commission conducted a review to assess whether the Article 8 and 9 categories should be formalised as fund labels, or whether the existing system should be entirely overhauled and replaced with new labels and alignment criteria.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 6, 2023

Asset managers are exercising greater caution by downgrading their Article 9 funds in lieu of clear guidance. . Let’s say you have an Article 9 fund which must invest (almost) all of its assets in sustainable investments. Is the entire holding in the investee company a sustainable investment or only 60%?

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Jon Hale

AUGUST 8, 2022

Sustainability Matters Block out the noise and focus on these three points. Mostly from Europe comes the claim that ESG is just greenwashing by the world’s largest asset managers, distracting attention from the urgent need for comprehensive policy solutions to climate change and other global sustainable development goals.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2023

The EC’s responses were to questions raised by the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) on SFDR in September last year, which asked for clarification the definition of “sustainable investments” and what it means to “consider” PAIs.

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