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Eurosif joins Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on sustainable finance

As announced back in December, Eurosif's Executive Director, Flavia Micilotta, will join the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on sustainable finance. The Group is set to start meeting on...

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Future Brief: Environmental Impact Investment

Today the European Commission has published a Future Brief, featuring Eurosif's research, on environmental impact investment. Future Briefs were introduced in 2011 to provide expert forecasts of envi...

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Eurosif welcomes new report published by FSB’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures

Today the FSB’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures issued its landmark report with a set of recommendations, applicable to organizations across sectors and jurisdictions. After l...

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Commission welcomes agreement on rules improving corporate governance in EU companies

After a year of negotiations, there is finally agreement on the proposal revision of the rights and duties of shareholders. The end of the trilogue negotiations marks the beginning of a new set of r...

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Closing the Sustainability Gap: Investor relations in the spotlight

SustainAbility, a think tank and advisory firm which enable business to lead the way to a sustainable economy, has published its latest report, Closing the Sustainability-Investor Relations Gap. The...

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UK’s Corporate Governance Green Paper

The UK government publishes a new Green Paper on Corporate Governance. The paper's clear focus is on potential regulatory revisions to shareholder power to set pay, stakeholder involvement on boards,...

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Can Green Bonds fuel resource efficient investments in Europe?

Published today, the much anticipated study commissioned by the European Commission presents an overview of green bonds, identifying the key players in the market and their focus, highlighting good p...

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MEPs vote to delay PRIIPs regulation

On the 28th of November 2016, the Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee of the European Parliament approved an amending Regulation to delay PRIIPs for 12 months (therefore moving the set date...

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November Insight – Sustainable investment: the success in statistics

This article, written by Valentina Neri, originally appeared in Italian on Lifegate.it Sustainable investment is outpacing the industry average, with double digit growth over the past two years. Th...

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IORPs II Directive voted through by MEPs

Today, November 24th 2016, in Strasbourg, MEPs endorsed an informal agreement with the EU Council and Commission and Council on changes to the "Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision" (IOR...

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FNG Label 2017: first signs of a positive impact on sustainable investment funds

A joint statement from Eurosif member FNG, GNGmbH and Novethic Berlin/Paris, 23 November 2016 – The FNG Label is having a positive impact on the quality of sustainable investment funds, as the res...

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Responsible Investor: Eurosif finds strong growth in the European SRI market over the past two years

There has been strong growth in the European sustainable and responsible investment market over the past two years, with impact investments particularly buoyant, according to new research from ind...