What's the verdict on the European Commisson's SFDR review? Listen to Leo Donnachie, Senior Policy Specialist, Sustainable Finance at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and David Němeček, Senior Sustainable Finance Expert at Responsible Companies, Frank Bold
Do the European Commission’s proposed changes to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) go far enough in resolving the weaknesses of the original legislation?
In this episode of Frankly Speaking, Richard Howitt was joined by Leo Donnachie, Senior Policy Specialist, Sustainable Finance at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and David Němeček, Senior Sustainable Finance Expert at Responsible Companies, Frank Bold.
Together they discussed what has and hasn’t worked with the current SFDR from the institutional investor perspective, as well as why the original legislation needed improvement. You’ll also hear about:
Do our ideas about what makes companies competitive actually hinder the shift toward sustainability?
Is it really is possible for companies to "do the right thing"?
There's very little pressure being applied to companies by investors looking at how they're actually behaving and treating human rights as a core business priority. This needs to change.
