A meeting with the management of stock exchanges and national banks of the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union to discuss the application of criteria for green projects of the Union countries (the EAEU model taxonomy) was held at the site of the Eurasian Economic Commission under the chairmanship of the EEC Minister for Trade Andrey Slepnev.
During the meeting, the legal aspects of the application of the model taxonomy of the Union for the purposes of barrier-free use of green financial instruments throughout the Eurasian space were touched upon.
“The results of the discussion of common approaches to the requirements for verifiers of green financial instruments, as well as possible measures to stimulate the use of the EAEU model taxonomy, will be used in the further work of the Union’s bodies in terms of issues on the climate agenda,” Andrei Slepnev said.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Armenian Stock Exchange, the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange, the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus, the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange JSC, the Green Finance Center of the International Financial Center, the Astana International Stock Exchange, the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Stock Exchange, the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic, the State Corporation VEB. The Russian Federation, JSC “Moscow Exchange”, JSC “Gazprombank”, JSC “Sberbank”, JSC “Analytical Credit Rating Agency”, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the Eurasian Development Bank.
