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High-yield, leveraged debt provides 'more direct' ESG engagement
17 May 2022"More direct" access to management in high-yield bond and leveraged loan markets sometimes provides "much better" engagement opportunities on environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics, according to a group of credit investors.
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Should sustainable bond underwriters stop financing fossil fuels?
13 May 2022Is it time for banks to end support of fossil fuel bonds in order to secure lead manager mandates for sustainable bond transactions?
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2Dii: Should ESG ratings be abolished?
12 May 2022Climate finance think tank 2° Investing Initiative (2Dii) has launched a short survey around environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings...
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'Disturbing' climate absence in shareholder proposals
12 May 2022Only 2% of shareholder proposals in 2021 related to the environment, with the vast majority based on governance, according to analysis by non-profit Planet Tracker.
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Mandate private market disclosures, says LSEG
11 May 2022Policymakers globally should introduce mandatory sustainability disclosure regimes that cover private markets as much as public markets, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has urged.
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UK transition plan taskforce consults on framework
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iCI & ERM launch 'first' private equity climate disclosure standard
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ISS ESG launches regulatory alignment tool
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CFOs 'surprisingly committed' to hiking sustainable bond issuance, says PwC
10 May 2022Private sector chief financial officers (CFOs) are "surprisingly committed" to increasing their issuance of green, social and sustainability (GSS) bonds...
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CDP: Time to debunk the myth that water is immaterial to financials
09 May 2022A third of financials still fail to assess water risk, Cate Lamb tells Genevieve Redgrave