7/10/2025 3:52:23 PM EU Commission Adopts Simplification Measures for the EU Taxonomy By Armelle Sandrin-Deforge On July 4, 2025, the Commission adopted a set of measures to simplify the application of the EU taxonomy, in the form of a Delegated Act...
7/1/2025 9:15:41 PM It's Confirmed: 2020 Proxy Advisor Regulations Exceed the SEC's Authority By Ferrell Keel David Peavler Evan P. Singer On July 1, 2025, a federal court of appeals held that the SEC's regulation of proxy advice exceeded its authority and the SEC's 2020...
7/1/2025 3:26:58 PM ESMA Report on the Integration of Sustainability Risks and Disclosures Under SFDR By Aidan Lawes Olga Gidalevitz The funds industry continues to wait for regulators and legislators to review and fix the multiple flaws in the existing SFDR regime. In...
6/17/2025 6:11:52 AM From TCFD to CRFR: Decoding the Basel Committee’s Climate Disclosure Drive By Olga Gidalevitz On June 13, 2025, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision released a voluntary framework for climate-related financial risk...
6/2/2025 11:24:08 AM German Energy Company Succeeds in Landmark Climate Change Litigation Case By Dr. Jürgen Beninca Gerjanne te Winkel Armelle Sandrin-Deforge On May 28, 2025, the Higher Regional Court in Hamm, Germany, sided with the defendant energy company in a landmark climate change...
5/2/2025 10:30:11 PM Financial Institutions May See Scope 3 Reporting Relief Under ISSB Proposals By Olga Gidalevitz The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) proposed targeted amendments to IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures standard,...
4/7/2025 3:15:02 PM FCA Confirms It Will Not Be Creating New Rules on Sustainability-Related Governance, Incentives, and Competence By Aidan Lawes In early 2023, the FCA released a discussion paper seeking to encourage industry-wide dialogue on financial services firms’...
4/3/2025 6:00:11 AM New Report on Taxonomy Recommends Additional Classification Criteria By Armelle Sandrin-Deforge In parallel to the proposed “Omnibus”, which will likely revise the 2020 Taxonomy Regulation, the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance just...
4/3/2025 5:49:13 AM OCC Ends Climate Risk Guidance for Large Banks By Amanda Dollinger In a recent shift, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has officially ended its climate risk guidance for large U.S....
3/20/2025 2:13:01 PM Can Bitcoin Ever Be Green? By Amanda Dollinger Interesting perspective on the long-asked question: Can Bitcoin ever be green? The tension between Bitcoin’s rapid growth and...
3/19/2025 7:01:38 PM UK FCA Says that Defence Companies Can Be Treated as "Sustainable" By Aidan Lawes The FCA has put out an interesting statement essentially supporting investment and lending to companies in the defence sector. Some...