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Proposed EU Financial Services Commissioner to Push for Sustainable Investment Product Labels, Reduced Reporting Burdens

ESG Today

In her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Albuquerque expressed her position that the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) could more effectively address greenwashing risk with the introduction of a labelling regime that communicated clearly the sustainability attributes of investment products.

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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 style attack on ESG.

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EU ‘green’ label for gas and nuclear sparks sustainable investing crisis

Corporate Knights

I’m reminded of this debate amid the current turmoil over a green investment label in Europe, a situation caused largely by the unwillingness of the sustainable investment sector to create its own industry standard.

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Impact Cubed's New EU Taxonomy Solution Provides Global Insights Into Green Investments

3BL Media

These new rules, intended to counteract greenwashing, spell out the criteria for a green investment and require market participants to disclose how they are aligned with them. For more information, visit www.impact-cubed.com/regulatory solutions. The outcome is a seamless approach to customized sustainable investing.

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Greenwashing Risk Grows in China ESG Funds

Chris Hall

Chinese asset managers are improving ESG awareness, but weak regulation means green claims often don’t match reality, says Greenpeace. Greenwashing is a growing risk in the Chinese fund management sector, as marketing of ESG products runs ahead of standards and regulatory oversight, a new report by Greenpeace has found.

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Global ESG assets drop 14% as industry tightens grip on sustainability claims

Corporate Knights

As the COP28 meeting begins and the world looks to the financial sector to step up on the climate crisis, the global sustainable investment industry is finally coming to grips with allegations of greenwashing that have plagued it for years. sustainable investment assets, dropping from US$17 trillion in 2020 to US$8.4

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Redefining ‘Business as Usual’: Three Ways to Overcome Barriers to ESG and Climate Finance

James Militzer

Yet despite the growing urgency of the need, the increasing interest among investors, and the business case for moving toward environmental sustainability, actual green investing hovers at just 10%, according to research by investment firms. The Problem of Misleading Information, Misinformation and Missing Information.