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    Investment Flows into Transition-Focused Funds Doubles Green Funds: ESMA

    2024-09-05

    ESG Today: Sustainability-focused investor interest appears to have undergone a significant shift towards investments in companies enabling a ‘brown to green’ transition, with net inflows into transition focused funds in the EU nearly doubling those into environmental funds over the past 2 years.

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    Stewart Investors Launches Asia Pacific and Japan Sustainability Fund

    2024-08-13

    Portfolio Adviser: The fund is available as an EU-domiciled VCC in Europe. It aims to achieve long-term capital growth by investing in a portfolio of 30 to 60 companies in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, which are helping to bring about a more sustainable future.

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    ESMA Recommends Sustainability Disclosure Requirements for All Financial Products

    2024-07-25

    ESG Today: EU markets regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced the publication of its “Opinion on the Sustainable Finance Regulatory Framework,” setting out a series of key recommendations aimed at facilitating investor access to sustainable investments and supporting the financing of the transition to a sustainable economy.

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    How Corporate Advocacy Helped Secure The EU’s New Nature Restoration Law

    2024-07-25

    GreenBiz: The European Union’s Nature Restoration Law, a landmark piece of legislation that requires restoring 20 percent of the continent’s land and marine ecosystems by 2030 and paves the way for broader restoration for the long-term recovery of nature in the region, was passed in June.

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    Switching to Sustainable Funds Offers Minimal Risk Impact: Study

    2024-07-24

    Funds Europe: Investors in Europe and Asia can transition to sustainable options with minimal impact on their portfolio exposures, according to a Morningstar research. Key takeaways from the report include insights into the limited growth bias of both active and passive sustainable strategies relative to their conventional peers.

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    Only 23% of EU Green Bonds to Meet December ‘Gold Standard’

    2024-07-22

    Funds Europe: The EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS), a voluntary ‘gold standard’ for Green, Social, and Sustainability (GSS) bond issuers, aims to combat greenwashing and enhance the transparency and credibility of Green Bonds across the EU. 

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    EU Markets Watchdog Signals a Hard Line on New ESG Disclosures

    2024-07-05

    BNN Bloomberg: Europe’s financial markets watchdog said companies shouldn’t anticipate that the complexity of new ESG reporting requirements will excuse sloppy disclosures.

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    UK Pension Funds and Insurers Favour Renewable Energy

    2024-07-05

    Funds Europe: UK pension funds and insurers are showing a strong preference for diversification across renewable energy technologies, according to a survey.

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    Swiss Government Allows Financial Sector to Self-Regulate Greenwashing Prevention

    2024-06-19

    ESG Today: Switzerland’s Federal Council announced today that it will hold off on regulating greenwashing in the financial sector, allowing instead for the industry to monitor itself, following progress made by the sector’s associations in developing and implementing self-regulatory provisions.

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    EU Regulators Propose Shake-Up of Sustainable Investment Labels

    2024-06-18

    U.S. News: European Union regulators proposed sweeping changes to the bloc's rules on labelling sustainable investments, to give investors simpler and clearer information and to stop "greenwashing" risks.

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