ESG policy

How CBAM Affects Your Portfolio Risk in 2026

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CBAM — the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — became financially binding on January 1, 2026, making it the world’s first fully operational carbon border policy to charge real costs based on the emissions intensity of imported goods. For investors in industrial equities, materials companies, and globally exposed portfolios, this is not an abstract policy … Read more

Green Finance Taxonomies: Building a Common Language in 2026

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Green finance taxonomies are the infrastructure beneath everything else in sustainable investing — the technical frameworks that define which economic activities count as genuinely sustainable and which don’t. In 2026, the global taxonomy landscape is both more developed and more fragmented than ever, and understanding how the major frameworks relate to each other is essential … Read more