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    EU’s Largest Party Calls to Scrap Anti-Greenwashing Law Over Business Burden Concerns

    2025-06-19

    ESG News: In a formal letter to Commissioner Jessika Roswall, the European People’s Party (EPP) has called for the complete withdrawal of the EU’s proposed Green Claims Directive (GCD), citing significant concerns over administrative burden, legal coherence, and lack of regulatory justification.

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    Goldman Sachs AM Launches EM Green and Social Bond ETF

    2025-06-18

    Portfolio Adviser: The Goldman Sachs Emerging Markets Green and Social Bond Active UCITS ETF invests mainly in fixed income across corporate and sovereign issuers in emerging markets, where issuers intend to allocate the proceeds for green or social contributions.

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    Banks Reverse Course, Increase Fossil Fuel Investments in 2024: Report

    2025-06-18

    ESG Dive: The world’s largest banks increased fossil fuel financing by $162.5 billion year-over-year in 2024, reversing course on decreasing investments in the sector — a trend they followed for the past two consecutive years — according to the latest Banking on Climate Chaos report just released.

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    SEC Withdraws ESG Disclosure and Shareholder Proposal Reform Rules

    2025-06-17

    ESG News: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has formally withdrawn two proposed rules central to the Biden-era ESG regulatory agenda—one requiring enhanced ESG disclosures from investment advisers, and another revising the shareholder proposal and resubmission process.

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    From 'Greenwashing' to 'Green Hushing' — Companies Complain New Law Stifles Environmental Efforts

    2025-06-17

    CBC: Some corporate leaders say new anti-greenwashing legislation has had the unintended effect of dissuading companies from taking climate action. But environmental organizations and others say that's a cop out. 

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    Australia Launches Sustainable Finance Taxonomy

    2025-06-17

    ESG Today: The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) announced the release of the Australian sustainable finance taxonomy, a new voluntary classification system for categorizing green and transition-focused economic activities, aimed at improving transparency and facilitating capital flows towards Australia’s climate goals.

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    How VCs Are Navigating Europe's Defence Spending Push

    2025-06-16

    Yahoo Finance: As venture capital investors look to profit from Europe’s defence spending boom, speculators hunting for the next unicorn need to navigate hurdles such as EU sustainability guidelines and difficulties for start-ups in a market dominated by large prime contractors.

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    KKR Acquires Leading Australian Independent Power Producer Zenith Energy

    2025-06-16

    Business Wire: KKR, a leading global investment firm, announced the signing of definitive agreements to acquire Zenith Energy (“Zenith” or the “Company”), a leading independent power producer (“IPP”), from a consortium including Pacific Equity Partners, OPSEU Pension Trust (“OPTrust”), and Foresight Group (together the “Consortium”), with Zenith’s founder and management retaining a minority stake.

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    EU Lawmaker Pushes for Deeper Cuts to Corporate Sustainability Rules

    2025-06-13

    ESG News: The European Parliament’s lead negotiator on the Omnibus regulatory package, Jörgen Warborn of the European People’s Party (EPP), has released a proposal calling for significantly deeper cuts to the EU’s sustainability reporting obligations than those originally suggested by the European Commission.

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    Companies are ‘Very Struck’ by SBTi’s Net-Zero Standard Draft Changes: Sustainability Roundtable Inc.

    2025-06-13

    ESG Dive: The Science Based Targets initiative, an organization that validates that corporate sustainability goals align with leading climate science, released a draft revision of its Corporate Net-Zero Standard this spring that proposed substantial changes to the scope of the prior framework for setting climate targets. 

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