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Sustainable finance: transparency and its misapprehension

12 April 2026 / Author(s): Dominic Gregory
Issue: April 2026 / Categories: Feature

This is the third article in a series which identifies certain of the issues which may have caused the green and sustainable finance market to become subdued of late. This article questions whether the concept of transparency in the sustainable finance sector has been properly thought through and accordingly whether the term is over-used and, on occasions, wrongly used.

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