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L’ESMA publie un rapport sur le greenwashing
Ivan Tchotourian 29 juillet 2024
Le 6 juin 2024, l’Autorité européenne des marchés financiers (AEMF-ESMA) a publié son rapport final sur l’écoblanchiment dans le secteur financier : ESMA36-287652198-2699.
- Pour accéder au rapport : cliquez ici
Quelle constatations faites ?
NCAs can leverage on their mandate to protect investors and on existing provisions in the EU Regulatory Framework, for sustainability-related supervision and enforcement. As a type of miscommunication or misconduct, greenwashing can be captured by existing EU rules prohibiting misleading information. Greenwashing can also be addressed by acting on infringements against a series of specific sustainability-related requirements introduced in the EU in recent years.
So far, NCAs have reported having detected only a limited number of actual or potential occurrences of greenwashing.
Formal enforcement decisions are, up to now, limited as well.
To address the need for specialised knowledge, NCAs and ESMA have started building sustainability-related capacities and expertise through training programs, recruitments, cooperation with relevant national agencies or dialogue with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
Quelles priorités ?
NCAs are expected to gradually deepen their critical scrutiny of sustainability-related claims. To achieve this, they are invited to continue increasing human resources and expertise, making investments in supervisory tools such as SupTech solutions and further embed greenwashing risks in their respective supervisory work programmes.
ESMA will continue to support the monitoring of greenwashing risks, the deployment of SupTech tools, and capacity building. In addition, ESMA will prompt Common Supervisory Actions where needed. ESMA may produce additional guidance for market participants and supervisors in high-risk areas of greenwashing.
The European Commission is invited to reinforce NCAs’ and ESMA’s mandates in certain areas, such as for benchmarks, and make sure all NCAs have the powers to promote retail investors’ financial education. Whenever possible, the Commission should ensure the legislative framework supports NCAs’ access to data.
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Investissement ESG : un outil pour prévenir le greenwashing
Ivan Tchotourian 8 mai 2024
Le RRSE offre un bel outil concernant le greenwashing des produits financiers. À la fin de l’automne 2023, le RRSE a produit un guide très utile que je vous invite à découvrir…
Résumé :
Ce guide a vocation à accompagner les institutions financières, les investisseurs et les détenteurs d’actifs dans leurs démarches d’investissement responsable, en les outillant plus particulièrement dans la détection de pratiques d’écoblanchiment qui représentent un frein à l’engagement dans la transition écologique par les investisseurs particuliers et institutionnels. – Une production du Regroupement pour la responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RRSE)
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ESG : la fin du greenwashing pour la SEC
Ivan Tchotourian 4 juin 2022 Ivan Tchotourian
Intéressante proposition faite récemment par la SEC récemment : « U.S. SEC unveils rules to ensure ESG funds follow through on investments » (Reuters, 27 mai 2022).
Proposition de la SEC :
Extrait
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday proposed a pair of rule changes aimed at stamping out unfounded claims by funds on their environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) credentials, and enforcing more standardization of such disclosures.
The proposals, which are subject to public input, outline how ESG funds should be marketed and how investment advisors should disclose their reasoning when labeling a fund.
The new « Fund Names » proposal would seek to expand the number of funds that must invest 80% of their assets in line with their names and investment policies.
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Fonds de pension hollandais : fronde contre le greenwashing
Ivan Tchotourian 23 novembre 2020 Ivan Tchotourian
IPE Magazine de novembre 2020 publie un article de Tjibbe Hoekstra initulé : « Survey: Dutch pension funds accuse asset managers of greenwashing » (16 septembre 2020).
Extrait :
Some asset managers do not invest as responsibly as they claim, a number of Dutch pension funds have said.
In a survey among 31 Dutch pension funds carried out by Dutch pensions publication Pensioen Pro, six in 10 Dutch pension funds agreed with the statement that some asset managers engage in greenwashing.
None of the participating pension funds, with combined assets under management worth €1.2trn, disagreed with the statement that greenwashing is a problem.
An important reason asset managers are being given the chance to engage in greenwashing is a lack of commonly agreed environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) standards, many pension funds believed.
Some 56% of respondents even saw the absence of a common ESG definition as a threat to responsible investing, the survey found.
Responsible investing is a rising trend in the Dutch pension sector, with 87% of the surveyed funds now having their own sustainable investment policy. The remaining 13% have outsourced this to their fiduciary manager.
None of the surveyed funds said they have no dedicated policy for responsible investing.
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