On Tuesday 26 March, MEPs approved by 579 votes to 40 against with 42 abstentions the political agreement reached at the end of February (see EUROPE B12202A12) on the proposed regulation creating a new category of benchmark indices to help investors compare the carbon footprint of investments (see EUROPE B11977A2).
The text actually adopts the name proposed by Parliament, namely the “EU Climate Transition Benchmark” instead of the “low-carbon” benchmark proposed by the...