Times of radical change
Times of upheaval are always times of radical change. It is not unimaginable that the experience of Covid-19 could help us understand climate change differently. And from this perspective, many believe the pandemic…
Category: Sustainable Finance
Shale stranded assets …
On March 6, talks between OPEC and Russia (so called OPEC+) failed to reach an oil production cut deal in the context of the coronavirus outbreak. At this point, producing countries…
EU Taxonomy for dummies
The EU Taxonomy is a tool to help investors, companies, issuers and project promoters plan and report the transition to an economy that is consistent with the EU’s environmental objectives. The…
The review of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive
The Commission has launched a few days ago a public consultation on the review of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD). The main focus of this consultation is to collect views from…
Green deal : where the money will come from ?
The European Green Deal The so-called “European Green deal” was presented by Ursula von der Leyen to the European Parliament on December 11th 2019. Her announcement followed the November declaration by the European…
“Greening” the Finance
In his famous “breaking the tragedy of the horizon” speech delivered at the Lloyds City Dinner on September 29 2015, Mark Carney said : “Climate change is the tragedy of the horizon.…