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Green Deal: SFDR struggles to encourage sustainable investing

Protest sign against fossil fuels. Photo via Unsplash.

The European Union is taking a major step forward with its Green Deal initiative, and investors are now being encouraged to invest green faster. The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) has been designed to play an important role in this effort by providing transparency into how investment firms and managers integrate sustainability risks into their decisions. But it is struggling in a confused industry. 

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