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Social taxonomy – Challenges and Chances - Related links
European Commission
- COM(2021) 390 final - Strategy for Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy (06.07.2021), COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS– Ext EN
- COM(2021) 188 final - EU Taxonomy, Corporate Sustainability Reporting, Sustainability Preferences and Fiduciary Duties: Directing finance towards the European Green Deal (21.04.2021), COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS – Ext EN
- COM(2020) 21 final – Sustainable Europe Investment Plan - European Green Deal Investment Plan (14.01.2020), COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS – Ext EN
- COM(2018) 353 final 2018/0178(COD) - The establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment (24.05.2018), Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL – Ext EN
- SWD(2021) 180 final – Strategy for Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy (06.07.2021), COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT Accompanying the COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
- Consultation on a renewed sustainable finance strategy - summary of responses (10.02.2021)
- Platform on Sustainable Finance report on transition finance - March 2021 (19.03.2021)
- Overview of sustainable finance
- EU taxonomy for sustainable activities
Press release
- Sustainable Finance and EU Taxonomy: Commission takes further steps to channel money towards sustainable activities (21.04.2021)
- Remarks by Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis at the press conference on the New Sustainable Finance Strategy and a European Green Bond Standard (06.07.2021)
Factsheet
- EU sustainable finance: April package (21.04.2021)
- How does the EU taxonomy fit within the sustainable finance framework? (21.04.2021)
European Parliament
- RENEWED SUSTAINABLE FINANCE STRATEGY (20.11.2021) - Ext Uniquement EN
- Impact investing in the framework of business and human rights (14.07.2020) – Directorate General for external policies – Policy department
- Social Impact Investment. Best Practices and Recommendations for the Next Generation (November 2020) - Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies, Directorate – General for Internal Policies
- European Parliament resolution on sustainable finance (29.05.2018)
Think tanks and other organisations:
- Financing a Sustainable European Economy (Report, March 2020, EU Technical Expert group on Sustainable Finance)
- What to expect from the EU’s renewed sustainable finance strategy (Αrticle, April 2021, Capital Monitor)
- Green and sustainable finance (Briefing, February 2021, European Parliament, EPRS)
- Improving the framework for sustainable finance (Conference, February 2021, EESC)
- High-level conference: Financing sustainable growth (Conference, March 2018, EC)
- Investing for the common good: a sustainable finance framework (Essay and Lecture series, July 2017, Bruegel)
- Final Report on Social Taxonomy (Report, February 2022, Platform on Sustainable Finance)
- Finance Watch Dialogue: Towards a Social Taxonomy (Conference, July 2020, Finance Watch)
- Human Rights are investors' obligations. A proposal for a social taxonomy for sustainable investment (Report, June 2020, SÜDWIND e.V. – Institut für Ökonomie und Ökumene)
- The New EU Social Taxonomy: A positive step (but obstacles remain) (Blog post, March 2022, Blogging for sustainability, University of Oslo, Professor Jay Cullen)
- What is social finance? Definitions by market participants, the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities, and implications for development policy (Working paper, 2021, Sören Hilbrich, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE))