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Somewhere between the Draghi report on EU competitiveness and the tenth omnibus package of 2025, the European Commission decided that environmental legislation had become too expensive to comply with — not because the objectives were wrong, but because the paperwork had grown out of proportion to the outcomes. The result…

In February 2026, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) published its official response to the proposed revisions of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) Scope 2 Guidance. EFRAG supports improvements to Scope 2 accounting but urges a balanced, proportionate, and cost-effective approach to implementation. This article summarises EFRAG’s key…

What Was the MiFID SME Growth Markets Initiative? The European Commission has confirmed the cancellation of the public consultation initiative related to MiFID costs disclosure for research covering multilateral trading facility (MTF) segments registered as SME growth markets, originally published on its Better Regulation “Have Your Say” portal under reference…

Recognition rarely arrives by accident. When it does, it usually reflects a convergence of timing, technology, and purpose. Generation Impact Global was named among the Forbes Top 100 Italian Startups at the end of last year, in December 2025, when Forbes Italia included the company in its annual special issue…

A pragmatic retreat from the 100% reuse target for straps and films Europe’s Pallet Problem and Packaging Waste Pallets are the flat, wooden workhorses of global trade. Billions of them circulate annually, bearing everything from Spanish tomatoes to Swedish flat-pack furniture. But while the pallets themselves are a model of…

The European Commission has published a draft Delegated Regulation amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/805, proposing new fee structures for the supervision of benchmark administrators that endorse third-country benchmarks under the oversight of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Background Since January 2022, ESMA has directly supervised critical benchmark administrators…

Switzerland is not known for haste, but when it moves, it does so with precision. This week, the Federal Council opened consultation on a draft law that could reshape how the world’s biggest platforms — Facebook, X, TikTok, Google — operate within Swiss borders. The proposal is deceptively simple: make…

GIG (Generation Impact Global) has been selected as one of the ten pioneering startups to participate in the prestigious LHoFT Catapult: Green Fintech program in Luxembourg, joining a global cohort accelerating change in sustainable finance. This recognition underscores GIG’s innovative approach and commitment to creating scalable solutions in the green…

September 3rd 2025 — Switzerland has found a new home for its unwanted carbon. In Copenhagen, the country signed two agreements with Denmark that will allow the export and permanent storage of Swiss CO₂ beneath the North Sea. The move is hardly a surprise. Switzerland’s geology offers little scope for…

Generation Impact Global at the SSF Roundtable on Sustainable Real Estate Investments On 3 September 2025, Generation Impact Global had the privilege of contributing to the Swiss Sustainable Finance Roundtable on Sustainable Real Estate Investments, held in Zurich. The session focused on climate-related financial disclosures and risk assessments in the…