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    Crypto ETF Drags ESG Label Into Wildly Volatile World of Bitcoin

    2023-08-28

    BNN Bloomberg: A London-based money manager has just attached an ESG label to a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, in a move that has environmental experts doing a double take.

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    Norway’s $1.4 Trillion Wealth Fund Wants ESG Ratings Overhauled

    2023-08-11

    BNN Bloomberg: Norway’s $1.4 trillion wealth fund is backing a European Commission proposal to overhaul the ESG ratings industry amid concerns that a lack of transparency and consistency among score providers is undermining confidence.

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    UK Should Streamline Europe’s Key ESG Test, Advisory Group Says

    2023-08-01

    BNN Bloomberg: A cornerstone of the European Union’s sustainable finance package should be streamlined by the UK to make it more useful to the market, according to the expert panel advising the government. 

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    Article 9 Funds Pick Up Outflows From Funds With Lower Sustainability Aims

    2023-07-31

    Funds Europe: Investors have withdrawn money from funds categorised as ‘Article 8’ under EU sustainable investment funds and appear to have re-allocated a portion of it to ‘Article 9’ funds that are more committed to sustainability, according to data.

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    Funds Tracking UK’s Bluechip Stock Index Have an ESG Problem

    2023-07-19

    BNN Bloomberg: Funds tracking the UK’s main stock index are exposed to considerably more environmental and social harm than those following other major benchmarks in Western Europe.

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    EU Puts ESG Laggards on Notice, Citing Investing ‘Revolution’

    2023-07-18

    BNN Bloomberg: Firms that fail to take ESG seriously face a bleak future in the European Union, as the bloc pushes ahead with the world’s most ambitious set of environmental, social and governance regulations.  

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    The Toughest ESG Rule Yet Puts EU on Collision Course With US

    2023-07-13

    BNN Bloomberg: The woman in charge of getting Europe’s toughest piece of ESG legislation through the bloc’s parliament says she’s confident the US will embrace the global accountability the bill introduces, once politicians stop being distracted by lobbyists.

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    ESMA Launches Call for Evidence on ESG Ratings

    2022-02-03

    ESMA: The Call for Evidence’s purpose is to develop a picture of the size, structure, resourcing, revenues and product offerings of the different ESG rating providers operating in the EU.

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    EU Publishes Rulebook to Classify ‘Green’ Investments

    2021-04-21 

    ReutersThe European Commission on Wednesday published its long-awaited system to classify "green" investments in sectors from industry to transport, but delayed vexed decisions on whether to label nuclear energy and power plants fuelled by natural gas as green. 

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    UK Pensions Regulator Warns Pension Schemes on Climate Disclosures

    2021-05-07 

    ReutersBritain’s pensions regulator will consider enforcement action against pension schemes that do not make mandatory climate risk disclosures, it said on Wednesday.

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