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Policy brief – Regulating ESG ratings to strengthen sustainable investors

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Inequalities, pollution, democracy: Finance has a huge impact on our daily life. We must ask ourselves: What should be the purpose of finance? How can citizens take control?

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Planet 17.05.2023

ESG ratings must disaggregate ESG parameters to repair sustainable investors’ trust

Transition plans

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Finance Watch Illustrating the complexity of EU transition plan requirements in the context of the EU sustainable finance legislative framework

Planet 03.04.2023

Europe must harmonise its patchwork of transition plan requirements

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Stability 22.03.2023

A Reaction to the Banking Crisis: Reinforce international prudential and resolution rules

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Planet 10.03.2023

It’s time to fix EU fiscal rules

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Our research and advocacy work aims at providing policy makers and civil society with technical arguments for defending the public interest in the debates around finance and financial regulation.

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30/05/2023 Sustainable finance

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Consultation response: IAIS public consultation on climate risk supervisory guidance

Finance Watch calls for increased ambition from the the IAIS to address climate risk in the Insurance Core Principles.

17/05/2023 Sustainable finance

Policy brief

Policy brief – Regulating ESG ratings to strengthen sustainable investors

In a policy brief published on May 17, Finance Watch proposes concrete policy measures to make ESG ratings reliable and meet the needs of ESG investors and other stakeholders, including...

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To face collective challenges such as climate change and rising inequalities, we need the positive power of finance to be put at our service.
This is what Finance Watch is all about.

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This infographic describes the various legislative initiatives undertaken at EU level and shows how complex and overlapping transition plan requirements for financial institutions risk creating legal uncertainty and regulatory burden, as opposed to one unified transition plan requirement as advocated by Finance Watch

Europe must harmonise its patchwork of transition plan requirements (infographic)

Transition plan requirements feature in several EU laws under discussion. Policymakers should harmonize these overlapping rules into a single, consistent requirement for all financial institutions to avoid legal uncertainty and...

Banking is on public lifelines once more: Time to reinforce banking rules (Cartoon)

Here we go again. Pouring public money onto the flames of the latest bank failure. Clearly, the international rules adopted since 2008 are not sufficient to make for a stable...

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