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SUMMARY:Omnibus Simplification Package - Preparing for Trilogues
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis was an in-person event.  “Important! Online participation is only allowed for attendees located outside Brussels”.  \nVENUE CHANGE: ROOM 1\, Conseil central de l’economie\, avenue de la joyeuse entree 17 \nThis event is under Chatham House rules.  \nOn February 26\, 2025\, the EU Commission published the “Omnibus Simplification Package”\, proposal introducing adjustments to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The Omnibus aims to reduce regulatory burdens particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and certain larger companies\, while reinforcing the EU’s commitment to enhancing competitiveness and ensuring a more proportionate and practical implementation of sustainability obligations. \nAhead of the trilogues commencing after October 2025\, the Council and the Parliament have finalised their negotiating positions. \nThe goal of this event is to discuss the Draft texts from the Council and the EU Parliament and assess whether the amendments proposed will lead to substantial changes in CSRD and CS3D. This discussion will lead to potential suggestion of additional improvements to the text. \nDraft Agenda  Recording  Slides
URL:https://ercst.org/event/omnibus-simplification-package-preparing-for-trilogues/
LOCATION:Conseil central de l’économie\, Avenue de la Joyeuse Entrée\, 17\, 1040 Bruxelles
CATEGORIES:SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
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SUMMARY:The transition plans: beyond sustainable finance?
DESCRIPTION:The idea of presenting a transition plan – i.e.\, ensuring that the business model and strategy of the undertaking are compatible with the transition to a sustainable economy and with the limiting of global warming to 1.5 °C\, in line with the Paris Agreement – will soon turn into a concrete legal obligation. It is mandated by the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and contemplated in other pieces of European sustainable finance legislation: the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and the EU Green Bonds Standard. But this kind of requirement expands beyond the sustainable finance realm. For example\, the European Parliament wants to reduce the amount of ETS free allocations for companies not having a decarbonisation plan or failing to meet their milestones. \nHowever\, it remains unclear how to turn those very forward-looking and complex commitments into real change by individual companies throughout the various business models. \nThe event aimed at identifying the objective\, scope\, and challenges in addressing the requirement of presenting transition plans in and beyond the EU corporate sustainability framework. \nAgenda    ERCST Slides
URL:https://ercst.org/event/the-transition-plans-beyond-sustainable-finance/
LOCATION:ERCST\, Rue Archimède 61\, Bruxelles\, 1000\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221026T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221026T120000
DTSTAMP:20260601T122739
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SUMMARY:The matrix: sustainable reporting requirements
DESCRIPTION:This workstream aims to bring together stakeholders and policymakers regularly to discuss substantive issues around hydrogen\, informed by original intellectual input from ERCST. \nFor more than 20 years\, the market has developed multiple reporting tools in response to the demand from investors for identifying which investments and economic activities can be seen as “sustainable”. \nIn 2020 the EU Taxonomy was introduced by the EU institutions as a flagship project of the sustainable finance strategy. It is meant to be an obligatory reporting tool to drive the flow of investment and give guidance to investors on economic activities that significantly contribute to the environmental objectives. \nAt the same time\, there is an ongoing expansion of other sustainability reporting requirements through other pieces of legislation: Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)\, EFRAG standards\, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD) and amended Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFRD). \nBusinesses increasingly understand the need to communicate with investors and the wider public about the climate and environmental risks and how undertakings want to transform toward a sustainable economy. However\, navigating the matrix of reporting becomes a challenge and the resources needed to comply are growing. The balance must be kept between the genuine need for information\, the burden behind its collection and its usefulness for the users – the complexity does not necessarily mean clarity. \nThis event aimed at identifying the challenges\, complementarity\, overlaps\, missing elements and the best way forward in the sustainability reporting framework.  \nAgenda    ERCST Slides
URL:https://ercst.org/event/the-matrix-sustainable-reporting-requirements/
LOCATION:ERCST\, Rue Archimède 61\, Bruxelles\, 1000\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
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SUMMARY:Green bonds – State of play. What is in it for transition?
DESCRIPTION:The Green Bond Standard is the flagship financial instrument incorporating the EU Taxonomy. After the Council and the European Parliament adopted their positions\, its status is entering a new phase\, the inter-institutional negotiations. It is a good moment to take stock of the different policy aspects related to green bonds: relation with the Taxonomy\, the skyrocketing demand for “sustainable” bonds and their role in financing the transition of businesses.    \nThe linkage of the EU green bonds standards with the Taxonomy caused political turbulences reflecting its controversial nature and difficult discussion over the inclusion of gas and nuclear energy into the Taxonomy. This was the reason behind the opposition of some Member States and MEPs to the new green bonds standard. Another source of controversy is the degree of alignment with the Taxonomy and the overall level of requirements. The Council allowed a 20% pocket for non-Taxonomy-related investments. The European Parliament wants much stricter rules applicable to the EU green bond standard\, including restrictions for doing business in tax havens. These negotiations reflect the need to find a balance between the desire to create the golden standard of the highest purity and the instrument of business reality. \nThis event aimed at taking stock of the EU Green Bonds initiative and identifying the challenges and opportunities related to this instrument in the context of financing the transition. \nAgenda    ERCST Slides    ERCST Publication
URL:https://ercst.org/event/green-bonds-state-of-play-what-is-in-it-for-transition/
LOCATION:ERCST\, Rue Archimède 61\, Bruxelles\, 1000\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
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SUMMARY:Nuclear energy and gas in the EU Taxonomy
DESCRIPTION:The EU Taxonomy was introduced in 2020 as a reporting tool. The declared goal of Taxonomy is to direct the flow of private capital to finance transition towards climate neutrality. It is a flagship project of the sustainable finance strategy adopted by the European Commission as a part of the European Green Deal. \nThe Taxonomy\, being a product of the regulation – not of market participants – became a label provoking political tensions. Using this label to describe economic activities became a matter of principle\, rather than a market instrument. The illustration of this phenomenon is the political debate about qualifying gas and nuclear energy as “sustainable” activities under the Taxonomy. \nBy July 2022\, the European Parliament formally reacted to the Complementary Delegated Act (CDA) which\, under some conditions\, qualifies gas and the nuclear energy as “green” activities. \nThe panelists explored the subject-matter along those guiding questions: \n\nHow the geopolitical situation affects the role of gas and nuclear energy in the climate transition?\nHow the CDA will affect the access to finance for gas and nuclear energy projects?\nIs there an impact on renewables?\n\nAgenda    ERCST Slides 
URL:https://ercst.org/event/nuclear-energy-and-gas-in-the-eu-taxonomy/
LOCATION:ERCST\, Rue Archimède 61\, Bruxelles\, 1000\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
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SUMMARY:EU Taxonomy: impacts on other policies
DESCRIPTION:This meeting took the form of a working group where stakeholders discussed specific elements of the EU sustainable finance agenda. This meeting was dedicated to the topic of EU Taxonomy impacts on other policies. Indeed\, ERCST considers the analysis of the interactions of the EU Taxonomy with other policies an important element because\, among other things\, these interactions will also have an impact on the overall functioning of the EU industry and financial market. ERCST considers that the EU Taxonomy Regulation will have two main types of impacts and interplays: \n\nFirst\, impacts on other sustainable finance (SF) policies. Notably\, ERCST intends to analyze the EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS)\, the proposed Corporate Sustainability Reporting (CSRD) Directive and the Corporate Governance Initiative.\nSecond\, interplays with other environmental and climate policies. Notably\, ERCST intends to analyze those related to carbon pricing (i.e.\, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the Energy Taxation Directive)\, and those shaping public (and private) finance and aid schemes such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility and Invest EU\n\nThe 2 working groups discussed these impacts. \nAgenda    ERCST Slides 
URL:https://ercst.org/event/eu-taxonomy-impacts-on-other-policies/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220126T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220126T160000
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SUMMARY:EU Taxonomy: extension framework and interplay with transition pathways
DESCRIPTION:This meeting will take the form of a working group. A diverse group of stakeholders will discuss specific elements of the EU sustainable finance agenda. This meeting is dedicated to the topic of EU Taxonomy and industrial transition. \nThe 2 working groups will discuss: \n\nThe EU Taxonomy extension framework: nuclear\, gas\, significantly harmful (SH) and no significant impact (NSI) activities\nEU Taxonomy interplay with transition pathways\n\n\nAgenda\n\nThis event is by invitation only and for more information you can contact pcesaro@ercst.org.
URL:https://ercst.org/event/taxonomy-extension-framework/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211123T133000
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SUMMARY:How to make the EU Taxonomy an international tool?
DESCRIPTION:Registration link\nERCST workstream on sustainable finance (SF) aims at bringing together relevant stakeholders on a regular basis to discuss substantive issues\, informed by original intellectual input from ERCST.\nThis webinar will gather a diverse panel to discuss the challenge of making the EU Taxonomy an international tool\, as well as launching ERCST report: “The EU economic transition challenge. EU Sustainable finance and Taxonomy developments: implications for the economic transition and impact on other policies”  \n\nAgenda\nWebinar note\nPPT presentation\nReport\n\n  \n13:30                        Welcome and introduction \n\nA. Marcu\, Director of ERCST\n\n  \n13:40                      Opening remarks & discussion  \n\nS. Kidney\, CBI\n\nDiscussion with A. Marcu and M. Mehling                    \n\n\n\n  \n14:10                      Outline of the state of play of SF agenda and presentation of ERCST report \n\nO. Imbault\, ERCST\nP. Cesaro\, ERCST\n\n  \n14:30                      Roundtable discussion on EU Taxonomy international uptake                           \n  \nChair \n\nO. Imbault\, ERCST\n\nPanelists  \n\nS. Fatica\, European Commission\nV. van Hoorn\, Eurosif\nR. Youngman\, OECD\nC. Neo\, Monetary Authority of Singapore\nJ. Sulaeman\, National University of Singapore\n\n15:30                      Concluding remarks  \n 
URL:https://ercst.org/event/how-to-make-the-eu-taxonomy-an-international-tool/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
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