Green Finance 2021: EU and UK

EU ESG Regulations

Overviews of EU ESG Regulations

• Herbert Smith Freehills, Horizon Scanning: ESG Regulation - UK and EU Developments (July 7, 2021).
  timeline providing an overview of EU and UK ESG regulation

• Barrie C. Ingman, ESG Regulation - Where to Start?, Factset (Apr. 29, 2020).
  blog post providing an overview of EU ESG regulation

• Sustainable Finance Work Stream - European Commission 

  Follow links on this page to:
  - overview of sustainable finance
  - EU taxonomy for sustainable activities
  - EU Green Bond Standard
  - Corporate disclosure of climate-related information
  - EU climate benchmarks and benchmarks’ ESG disclosures
  - Sustainability-related disclosure in the financial services sector
  - International platform on sustainable finance

EU ESG Regulations - Final

• Directive (EU) 2014/95 - NFRD - The Non-Financial Reporting Directive
• Directive (EU) 2017/828 - SRD II - The Second Shareholder Rights Directive
• Regulation (EU) 2019/876 - CRR II - The Second Capital Requirements Regulation
• Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 - SDR - The Sustainability Disclosure Regulation
• Regulation (EU) 2019/2089 - CBR - The Climate Benchmarks Regulation
• Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 - IFR - The Investment Firms Regulation
• Directive (EU) 2019/2034 - IFD - The Investment Firms Directive
• Regulation (EU) 2019/2175 - ESAO - The "ESA Omnibus" Regulation
• Regulation (EU) 2020/852  - The Taxonomy Regulation

EU ESG Regulations - Proposed

• Proposed Green Bond Standard - On Proposed Green Bond Labelling Measures
• Proposed Ecolabel Measures - On an Ecolabel for Financial Services

European Green Deal

• European Green Deal - overview and timeline
  Follow links from this page to areas of action.

Each area of action provides links to the latest European Commission documents on initiatives in that area.

NextGenerationEU

• Overview of the European Commission's covid stimulus package and the plan to invest it in a greener Europe
• Documents relating to NextGenerationEU

Additional EU Resources

• European Commission (EC) Publications 

  Search publications for "green" or "environment" or limit by country.

• European Commission - News - Climate Action 

  See the latest news from the EU on its climate action initiatives

Legislation

• Climate Change Act (2021)

News

• current press releases of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
• German Candidates Fail to Find Footing in Flood Response
  2021 New York Times article about the effect of climate change on the German chancellor election
  Start or renew free New York Times access through UofSC Libraries here: bit.ly/uofscnyt

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

• 2021 ESG priorities (July 2021)
• Proposals on climate-related disclosure rules (June 2021)
  • CP21/18 - Enhancing climate-related disclosures by standard listed companies
  • CP21/17 - Enhancing climate-related disclosures by asset managers, life insurers and FCA-regulated pension providers

Green Finance Institute

• Use the three bars in the upper right to link to:
  • Insights - articles, reports, and more
  • Green is the New Finance - a podcast
  • News - press releases from the institute