Tech Funding News: The EU’s recent Omnibus package aims to streamline requirements for the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and related frameworks amid green policy uncertainty.
Funds Europe: Sustainability-focused funds in Europe have surpassed €6 trillion in assets, according to law firm Maples Group’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) impact analysis, revealing a 24% rise in such funds across Ireland and Luxembourg in 2024.
ESG News: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has publicly urged the European Union to cancel its Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), signaling a potential reversal in Europe’s approach to ESG regulation.
ESG Today: The European Central Bank (ECB) released a new opinion on the European Commission’s proposals to simplify and reduce sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements for companies.
Global Banking and Finance Review: A political push to pare back EU sustainability regulations must not mean losing information on material risks or force investors to rely more heavily on third-party data providers, Europe's main asset management trade group said.
ESG Today: EU markets regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced the publication of its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) under the EU’s ESG Rating Regulation, setting out its proposed rules for ESG ratings providers.
Yahoo Finance: Environmentalists protested at the Swiss National Bank's annual shareholder meeting, urging the central bank to divest from companies they say contribute to environmental devastation in regions like the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna.
Portfolio Adviser: Adding an ESG term to the name of a fund has “a significant impact” on fund inflows during the five quarters following the name change, according to the latest study published by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).
Funds Europe: Physical climate risk continues to pose the most serious long-term threat to institutional investors, according to a 2025 climate scenarios study warning that “net zero by 2050 is no longer realistic.”
ESG Today: Germany’s conservative CDU and CSU parties and the center-left SPD announced a deal for the formation of a new government, and released a coalition agreement that includes the immediate elimination of Germany’s human rights and environmental supply chain due diligence law, the Supply Chain Act (LkSG).
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