This report Final Report of the High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance is the final report of the EU High-Level Group on Sustainable Finance (HLEG). The Group was established by the European Commission in late 2016 to help to develop an overarching and comprehensive EU roadmap on sustainable finance.
The Group’s recommendations in this final report aim to inspire and guide the Commission’s action plan on sustainable finance. The art of implementation will be to not increase the overall regulatory burden and complexity, given that the ultimate purpose is to facilitate more investment. And the ultimate test of the HLEG will not just be the degree to which its recommendations are adopted, but the extent to which sustainable finance becomes a permanent feature of European markets and policy-making. The HLEG hopes to stimulate a wide public debate that helps shift Europe’s financial system from post-crisis stabilisation to supporting long-term growth.