EU Sustainable Finance Plan risks harming green SMEs

20 Nov 2019

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EU bank announces end to fossil fuel financing

15 Nov 2019

The board of the European Investment Bank agreed on Thursday to cease funding fossil fuel projects, but what president Werner Hoyer called “the most ambitious climate investment strategy of any public financial institution anywhere” leaves the door open until the end of 2021

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EU envisages support for banks financing green projects

12 Nov 2019

The European Commission will review banks’ capital requirements to encourage them to invest in the low-carbon transition as part of a new set of rules to be tabled by June 2020

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EU member states urged to double climate finance pledges

22 Oct 2019

Environment groups have urged EU member states to raise their contributions to UN Green Climate Fund to 'no less than at least double initial contributions'

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Parliament gives green light to green taxonomy negotiations

21 Oct 2019

New EU legislation setting standards for sustainable investments will head to inter-institutional negotiations on Wednesday after lawmakers agreed on their position on the proposed taxonomy regulation

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EU and China agree green finance cooperation

20 Oct 2019

The EU, China and other countries have joined forces to draw up new rules for trillions of dollars of private sector investment required to meet the Paris climate agreement commitments

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