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ESG regulation - banks and insurers offer guidance on data requirements in English and French

ESG regulation: banks and insurers offer guidance on data requirements in English and French

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Introduction
What are transition plans?
What is the purpose of transition plans?
What is good practice in the drafting of transition plans?
Conclusions

A Practical Overview of Businesses’ Transition Plans for Banks 

Alongside climate change, conserving biological diversity is one of the key challenges of our time. Most recently this was highlighted in the Global Risks Report 2023 from the World Economic Forum (WEF), which categorised biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as severe global risks over the next

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„Die privaten Banken sind bereit, die Energiewende zu finanzieren“, betont Heiner Herkenhoff, Hauptgeschäftsführer des Bankenverbandes, bei der Veröffentlichung eines Positionspapiers. „Damit das gelingt, müssen Investitionen rentabel sein. Der Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland braucht eine wettbewerb

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Inhalt

Introduction
What are transition plans?
What is the purpose of transition plans?
What is good practice in the drafting of transition plans?
Conclusions

Introduction

Initially, the EU sustainable finance framework focused on defining, through the EU taxonomy, which economic activi

What does ESG in a bank’s risk management mean?

Climate and environmental risk are becoming increasingly noticeable in our everyday lives.&nbsp;So much so, that they have now become the focus of banking supervision – and not only in relation to climate stress tests.&nbsp;Nowadays, sustainability 

3 questions, 3 answers: ESG risk management

Alongside climate change, conserving biological diversity is one of the key challenges of our time. Most recently this was highlighted in the Global Risks Report 2023 from the World Economic Forum (WEF), which categorised biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as severe global risks over the next 

As the key element of the European sustainable finance strategy, the EU taxonomy is the world’s most detailed and comprehensive framework for classifying sustainable economic activities.&nbsp;The regulation, which came into force in 2020, aims to promote the consideration of ESG criteria in the fina

The EU taxonomy for sustainable investments –  an update to our guidance 


	Latest study on industry’s taxonomy profile
	Focus on transformation needed


The Association of German Banks today presented a study on the taxonomy profile of industry. “In order to drive the transformation forward, we need to know where we stand with the rebuilding the economy,” said Heine

Herkenhoff: Informative value of Green Asset Ratio limited

Why do we need an EU transition finance framework?

In order to truly drive climate change mitigation, it is essential that all economic sectors become greener.A sole focus on “dark green” financing will not be enough to reach our climate goals.&nbsp;This applies in particular to sectors such as s

Financing the transition: a potential design for an EU transition finance framework 

Contents

Summary of main messages

1. Transition finance is essential to fight climate change

2. The EU taxonomy is still insufficient to guide the transition finance

3. Towards a principles-based EU transition finance framework


Summary of main messages

The sole focus on ‘green’ f

Considerations for an EU framework for Transition Finance

The European Supervisory Authorities published a Joint Consultation Paper on the Review of SFDR Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1288 regarding PAI and financial product disclosures Review of SFDR. The German Banking Industry Committee has commented on this as follows.


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