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Investors urged to join sovereign climate performance assessment project

Investors have been urged to get involved in a project to develop an assessment framework for the carbon performance of sovereigns, currently backed by groups including the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI).

Illegal wildlife trade and investors

Why should institutional investors be concerned about the illegal wildlife trade and what can they do to prevent it, ask Rory Sullivan and Steve Watson

News round-up: Sarasin, ABI, Green Finance Institute and PwC

ABI joins Principles for Sustainable Insurance

News round-up: GRI, SASB standards 'complementary', BoA boosts ESG financing target, Impax reaches assets milestone ... and more

GRI and SASB reporting "complement each other"

European insurers ranked top globally for ESG activity

Asset owner climate valuation framework 'could be used by' IFRS

Impact fund provides grants to support IIRC, SASB merger

The Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing has provided grants worth $500,000 to the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) - to help "unify the impact investing market behind a global standard", it said.

IFRS Foundation sets out 'strategic direction' for global sustainability standards

The trustees of the IFRS Foundation have said a prototype climate-related disclosure standard devised last year could be used as the basis for a proposed global sustainability reporting regime, and said they plan to begin work with a group of sustainability-related reporting organisations.