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PRI lists 25 SDG reporting initiatives according to focus.  Some are a mechanism for disclosure and reporting on SDG investments or impact financing.  Others allow for measuring and reporting on the implementation of the SDGs by businesses and their alignment with corporate sustainability benchmarks.  United Nations Gl ...

EU securities regulation has established a taxonomy of environmentally sustainable financial activities that potentially supports sustainable corporate governance.  This paper argues that including environmental sustainability in EU mandatory disclosure aligns the incentives of institutional investors with the interest ...

Tourism in many countries, particularly in developing economies, depends largely on such natural assets as forests, coastlines and wildlife and are linked to such environmental conditions as clean air and water.  Given the interdependency of tourism and the environment, the environmental impacts of COVID-19 have short- ...

EU countries have been arguing for three years whether to include nuclear and gas as green investments in the taxonomy.   The decision will shape EU climate and energy policy for decades and have effects far beyond the financial sector.  France, the UK, and Eastern European countries threatened to veto the EU taxonomy ...

Germany's environmental minister from the Social Democrats (SPD), Svenja Schulze, has affirmed that the country will work towards excluding nuclear power from the EU taxonomy for sustainable investments.  She says that they don’t want nuclear energy, don’t think it’s sustainable, and don’t want the EU to support it.  T ...