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21 February

Implementation of the new European taxonomy: What are the next steps?

2024-02-21T19:04:48+01:00

The European taxonomy applies to companies from January 2022. It covers more than 142 economic activities and 9 sectors and will radically transform the definition of performance for companies. The taxonomy creates a classification of economic activities and investments according to their sustainability. The European green finance [...]

Implementation of the new European taxonomy: What are the next steps?2024-02-21T19:04:48+01:00
28 February

The SFDR regulation: instructions for use (part 1)

2023-07-22T03:33:39+02:00

The "EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan", one of its main objectives is to involve the financial sector in the EU's climate objectives. First part The EU Disclosure Regulation has created new sustainability transparency obligations for market participants.  Significant investments are needed to meet the resilience, sustainability and [...]

The SFDR regulation: instructions for use (part 1)2023-07-22T03:33:39+02:00
13 January

How to ward off the threat of greenwashing and protect your reputation in the long term

2023-06-12T15:40:22+02:00

According to Ademe (the French environmental agency), greenwashing consists of an organisation orienting its marketing and communication towards an ecological positioning.   Whether it is the regulator, the consumer or companies worrying about its reputational and financial impact, all the actors in economic life are concerned about greenwashing.   The [...]

How to ward off the threat of greenwashing and protect your reputation in the long term2023-06-12T15:40:22+02:00
23 May

Agriculture: Targeting Net Zero Emissions

2023-05-02T10:01:03+02:00

the pressure on the agricultural sector to accelerate the reduction of its environmental footprint and the decarbonisation of its value chain will increase These methodologies will facilitate the consideration of the role of the agricultural sector in the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and will allow actors along the value chain [...]

Agriculture: Targeting Net Zero Emissions2023-05-02T10:01:03+02:00
28 February

Focus: Methane’s role in the decarbonisation of companies

2022-12-05T14:28:48+01:00

The reduction of methane emissions is now a condition for achieving the +1.5 degree scenario of the Paris Climate Agreement. International conventions evolve to support the reduction of the methane greenhouse effect  The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in August 2021, assesses [...]

Focus: Methane’s role in the decarbonisation of companies2022-12-05T14:28:48+01:00
7 February

The French climate priorities on the menu of the French Presidency of the EU

2023-06-12T15:27:02+02:00

The role of the EU Council Presidency is to push the European project both in the legislative field and in the field of social acceptability, without which the transformation of the European growth model will not become reality. A road show of more than 400 events is planned from 1 January [...]

The French climate priorities on the menu of the French Presidency of the EU2023-06-12T15:27:02+02:00
20 December

Post COP-26 : the priorities for Europe in 2022

2023-06-12T15:22:25+02:00

The challenges of European diplomacy are considerable: increasing the commitments of the Parties, influencing the promise made by the developed countries to the developing countries to mobilise 100 billion dollars annually between 2020 and 2025, making the Paris Agreement fully operational, or moving towards the harmonisation of reference documents. 13 new [...]

Post COP-26 : the priorities for Europe in 20222023-06-12T15:22:25+02:00
15 October

The European Climate Law: context, challenges and opportunities

2022-10-18T05:28:52+02:00

The European Climate Law is a regulation which, unlike a directive, is directly incorporated into European Union law and into the domestic law of all its Member States, without any national transposition measures. The Climate Package, also said  « Fit for 55 », is a set of legislative proposals that should more materialize [...]

The European Climate Law: context, challenges and opportunities2022-10-18T05:28:52+02:00
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