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Hectic negotiations and lobbying are going on at the European Commission about the Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities, in the last day before it is due to publish the detailed rules. Key countries including Germany have changed their positions, GlobalCapital can reveal, while supporters of gas and nuclear power are digging in. Battlelines are now being drawn over the timing. -
Grünenthal, the German pharmaceutical firm which specialises in painkillers, is looking to refinance its debt with an inaugural high yield bond, just two months after buyers reportedly shunned the company over ESG concerns around opioid manufacturing.
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A new acronym is joining the sustainable finance lexicon — the SRD. The EU’s Sustainability Reporting Directive will become the cornerstone of corporate reporting on sustainability, which is the foundation of responsible investing. A draft of it has been leaked, showing that it will impose much stricter rules on companies about reporting their environmental and social impacts, but also contains loopholes.
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DBS Bank is aiming to reduce its thermal coal exposure to zero by 2039, joining a group of global investors and banks that have made similar commitments to tackle climate change.
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The European Commission is set to put forward a new solution to the intense battle over the EU's sustainable finance Taxonomy, between green finance supporters and EU member states that want to safeguard their plans to use gas, GlobalCapital has learned. This would appear to involve leaving gas out of the sustainable category of the Taxonomy, as environmentalists have demanded, and making a "separate legislative proposal" to deal with gas and nuclear power.
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Several European banks’ noses were put out of joint this week by research from Jefferies, which suggested a very different ranking of banks’ ESG characteristics from that investors usually get from rating providers. The study argued commercial ESG ratings on banks are not fit for purpose.
