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People Moves 20 November: Moody's, Willis Towers Watson, GRI, Deutsche Börse, CBI, GIIN, GIZ, Nordea

UK government announces green sovereign bond and climate disclosure plan

The UK government has announced plans to issue its first green sovereign bond in 2021, as well as making for climate-risk disclosures mandatory for major companies by 2025.

Etihad Airways issues 'world's first transition sukuk'

United Arab Emirates (UAE)-owned Etihad Airways has issued a five-year $600 million sustainability-linked 'transition' sukuk, believed to be the first of its kind in the world and the first sustainability-linked bond in the airline industry.

Only a matter of time' before TCFD becomes mandatory in UK, says BofE

Bank of England (BofE) markets executive director Andrew Hauser said you can "reasonably expect" adoption of recommendations outlined by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) to become mandatory in the UK.

Central banks should step up to face environmental breakdown risk in finance

Market-fixing approaches such as the nascent Task Force for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) are "unsuitable" for managing the risks posed by environmental breakdown, an academic paper has argued, instead proposing that central banks and financial regulators should introduce strict industry-wide exclusionary criteria.

Apex launches private company ESG ratings service for investors

Financial services firm Apex has launched a platform offering an environmental, social and governance (ESG) rating and scoring service for private companies, allowing investors to generate sustainability insights for their entire portfolio.

Big data 'can help assess country ESG risk, and its implications for companies'

Big data can help investors better understand countries' environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks, and the challenges these present to the companies operating within them, said MSCI.

Bloomberg launches its own 'fully transparent' ESG scores

Bloomberg has launched proprietary, company-level environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores, marking a significant expansion of the sustainability data available on its terminals.

US retirement plan proposals on ESG 'off-the-mark', says SASB

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has called on the US Department of Labor (DoL) to withdraw proposed retirement plan rule changes, which were accused of seeking to "tamp down" environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing.

Assessing companies' climate lobbying

Responses are being sought to a consultation on a framework to assess whether corporate lobbying is aligned with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, write Clare Richards and Rory Sullivan