Platform on Sustainable Finance: end of • Table.Briefings

Today, the first mandate of the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance ends after two years of advising the Commission on the taxonomy regulation. It was not only the definition of natural gas and nuclear power as sustainable that caused tensions between the two bodies. Five members left the platform with further serious allegations.

The members of the Platform on Sustainable Finance certainly did not expect this kind of turbulence when the advisory body began its work in October 2020. Fifty-seven experts from industry, academia, civil society and the financial sector, including seven directly appointed members from public institutions such as the European Investment Bank or the European Environment Agency, have since advised the Commission on the development of its sustainable finance policy. However, their approach caused a great deal of trouble in some cases.

Platform on Sustainable Finance: end of a turbulent mandate

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