Environmental, social and governance ratings - Related links

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European Commission

COM(2023) 314 final - REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the transparency and integrity of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating activities (EC, 13 June 2023)

Sustainable Finance: Commission takes further steps to boost investment for a sustainable future (13 June 2023)

Questions and Answers on the Sustainable Finance package (13 June 2023)

COM(2023) 317 final - Communication: A sustainable finance framework that works on the ground

SWD(2023) 209 final - Staff working document on enhancing the usability of the EU Taxonomy and the overall EU sustainable finance

Commission notice on the interpretation and implementation of certain legal provisions of the EU Taxonomy Regulation and links to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation 

SWD(2023) 204 final - Impact assessment accompanying the proposal

SWD(2023) 207 final - Summary of the impact assessment accompanying the proposal

Timeline of the legislative proposal and stakeholder's feedback

Call for evidence - Sustainable finance – environmental, social and governance ratings and sustainability risks in credit ratings (EC, 2022)

European Parliament

Transparency and integrity of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating activities (EP, June 2023)

OECD

Policy guidance on market practices to strengthen ESG investing and finance a climate transition (OECD, 5 October 2022)

ESG ratings and climate transition (OECD, 8 June 2022)

ESG Investing and Climate Transition (OECD, 2021)

Think tanks and other organisations

Policy brief – Regulating ESG ratings to strengthen sustainable investors (Finance Watch, 17 May 2023)

Information Intermediaries and Sustainability (CEPS, 4 November 2022)

A critical look at the ESG market (CEPS, 27 April 2022)

Better sustainability data is still needed to accelerate the low-carbon transition in capital markets (Bruegel, 18 October 2021)

Environmental, societal and governance criteria: hit or miss? (Bruegel, 26 August 2021)