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EU Watchdogs Ask for Input on Greenwashing Risks

Chris Hall

US and UK regulators have also been developing new anti-greenwashing rules for funds. . Separately, the ESAs have written to the Commission asking for a six-month extension on a mandate to review the principal adverse impact indicators (PAI) and financial product disclosures outlined under SFDR. .

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MiFID II to Boost Green Fund Flows Despite Credibility Doubts

Chris Hall

Changes to EU investment rules should prove a boon to green funds – but the continent’s ESG sector still has a big credibility problem. Then comes the question of whether the client wishes to hold products or instruments with a minimum proportion of sustainable investments as defined by the SFDR. A positive development?

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: Asset Owner-led Platform Extends Dataset

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including SDI AOP, ISS ESG, Euronext, YourStake and Datia. . The deployment of artificial intelligence to implement our SDG framework is essential to process the huge volumes of data.” .

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: 2DII’s PACTA to be Stewarded by RMI

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including 2DII, RMI, Nasdaq, Clarity AI, ISSB, Integrum and Accenture. . With the transfer of PACTA to RMI, 2DII intends to focus on the incubation and further development of its current suite of research programmes.

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Take Five: Think Big

Chris Hall

Big shifts and giant leaps – Ahead of next week’s SDG Summit , the UN published a report outlining the science-based “transformational shifts” (or “ systems transformations ”) needed to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals , replacing the incremental and insufficient process made since 2015.