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EU Taxonomy and project finance: what European DFIs expect
The EU Taxonomy was born of a regulatory intention: to harmonise what is called sustainable, to prevent everything and nothing from being so. For a project sponsor mobilising European financing, it has ceased to be a theoretical subject. It increasingly determines eligibility and access conditions directly.
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