The European Union’s Taxonomy climate Delegated Act will come into force next month, a move that’s considered a milestone in the bloc’s aim to bring sustainability accounting to its companies. The member states of the EU’s Commission approved the implementation of the regulation. The EU Taxonomy is seen as key to enabling investors to accurately compare the ESG disclosures of corporates and provides a sustainability benchmark and common language for markets.
Financial institutions are integrating not only greater volumes of data for use across their organisation but also more varieties of data. As well, that data is being applied to more use cases than ever before, especially regulatory compliance and ESG integration. Due to this increased complexity of institutions’ data needs, however, information often arrives into...
The number of financial institutions flagged for greenwashing climbed substantially in the past year, highlighting both the vulnerability of individual firms and the need to integrate greenwashing risk management into decision-making processes.. The sector remained the worst offender for overstating their progress or making vague or misleading claims, the report by sustainability risk data company...
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The time for talking is over. The time for action is now. A bit melodramatic, perhaps, but given last month’s official launch of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) standard, practitioners are rolling up their sleeves and getting on with figuring out how to incorporate the new identifier into their customer and entity data infrastructures....