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FCA sustainability labelling gets off to slow start
31 July 2024UK fund managers have been urged to adopt sustainability fund labels as a priority to address transparency and greenwashing concerns - but only one fund manager has confirmed publicly it will use the labels.
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London calling IFRS: Forget Canada, base ISSB in UK!
02 September 2021A group of UK finance organisations has urged the IFRS Foundation to locate its new International Sustainability Standards Board
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Green and sustainability-linked loan round-up: CIP, Siemens Gamesa and more
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Green bonds round-up: Wallonia; Adif; Nedbank; SFE; Crédit Agricole; Green OAT
01 May 2019Wallonia, the French speaking region of southern Belgium, has entered the green bond market with a dual-tranche issue that raised €1 billion ($1.2 billion).
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HSBC tightens policy on palm oil financing
21 February 2017HSBC has pledged to tighten its policy on financing palm oil companies, to help improve the sustainability of the industry.
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Norway's sovereign wealth fund divests 58 companies on environmental grounds
11 March 2016Norway's giant sovereign wealth fund divested from 58 companies last year because they were deemed to pose environmental risks.
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Norway's oil fund divests from Korea's Posco and Daewoo
18 August 2015Norway's sovereign wealth fund – the largest in the world – is to exclude leading Korean companies Posco and Daewoo International from its investment portfolio because of their involvement in palm oil plantations in Indonesia.
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BlackBerry among FTSE4Good additions as the index breaks link with EIRIS
16 September 2013BlackBerry, Clorox and MGM Resorts International are among 30 companies added to FTSE's responsible investment index in its semi-annual review, while no firms were deleted.