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Our planet must remain livable and the financial industry plays a key role in securing its future: financial flows must be re-oriented from environmentally harmful activities to a sustainable economy.
Financial regulation, alongside other policies, should ensure private finance becomes an enabler of sustainable transition. This requires:
- Transparency and corporate governance reforms to ensure real-world outcomes and prevent greenwashing.
- Robust risk management and adequate capital levels of financial institutions to make them resilient, ensure a “safe transition” and avoid a climate-driven financial crisis.

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19 PUBLICATIONS
Position paper

Principles to identify and manage deviation from Paris-aligned pathways

Consultation response

Finance Watch’s response to the consultation on Taxonomy criteria and disclosures – Consultation response

Position paper

Foundations for simple, transparent and meaningful SFDR product categories
Key considerations for defining product categories and respective minimum criteria

Joint statement

Joint call for clearer ESG categorisation rules for individual investors – Joint Letter
Finance Watch, Better Finance, and the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) call on the European Commission to remove any confusing categories (ESG Collection), and to make engagement a binding element, at least for...

Joint statement

EU sustainability disclosures are no threat to competitiveness – Joint letter
Finance Watch alongside 90+ organisations urges EU leaders to refrain from gutting EU’s hard-won sustainability framework, an essential brick that is no less than a pre-condition to wiring EU finance to a...

Policy brief

Policy brief – Empower investors to drive the climate transition
Towards more credible and transparent transition plans

Policy brief

“Safe transition planning for banks”: Recommendations for EU’s new ‘prudential’ transition plans
In this policy brief, Finance Watch makes concrete recommendations for the upcoming EBA requirements on “prudential” transition plans for EU banks in order to bring legal certainty and comparability and make transition...

Consultation response

Improving transparency and understandability for retail investors: A reaction to the 2024 joint ESAs’ opinion on SFDR

Position paper

Sustainable investing: Tailoring the transparency framework for retail investors – Position Paper
Finance Watch’s recommendations to align PRIIPS and sustainability preferences with SFDR

Position paper

Rethinking SFDR: Finance Watch’s proposal in 10 questions – Position Paper
How to strengthen the sustainability transparency framework for financial products

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