International Platform on Sustainable Finance - 2021 key deliverables including annual report

In 2021, the work of the International Platform on Sustainable Finance focused on two important policy areas

1. comparison of taxonomies
2. sustainability-related disclosure

At the occasion of the IPSF annual event organised under the EU Pavilion at the COP26 on 4 November 2021, the following three reports have been published and presented, together with a statement reaffirming IPSF members’ commitment to international cooperation in the development of globally comparable and interoperable sustainability approaches and tools to identify, verify and align investments with sustainability goals, including definitions and taxonomies, taking due account of local specificities and transition considerations.

• IPSF annual report 2021
• IPSF common ground taxonomy instruction report
• IPSF report on ESG disclosure
• IPSF COP26 statement

The IPSF also launched a stakeholders' consultation on the CGT activities’ table that ended on 14 January 2022. The feedback has been carefully considered when updating the CGT activities’ table.

• Common ground taxonomy table
• Specific privacy statement: Call for feedback on the result of the technical comparison of some features of the EU and China taxonomies