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WBA requests feedback on nature benchmark

Investors and businesses have been invited to provide feedback on a methodology for assessing "the 1,000 most influential companies" worldwide on their contributions to nature and biodiversity-related UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

'Impact accounting' bodies launch survey of existing approaches

The Value Balancing Alliance (VBA) and Impact-Weighted Accounts initiative (IWAI) at Harvard Business School have asked organisations to explain how they 'value' their positive and negative social and environmental impacts.

Ocean disclosures 'missing' from Danish pension funds

Danish pension funds are failing to engage with the impact of their investments upon the oceans, the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA) has said.

WBA reveals how it will assess financial system on SDGs

The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has published the methodology for assessing the financial system's contribution to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

NZAOA has 'low' climate voting transparency

Several members of the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) lack transparency when it comes to their proxy votes cast on climate-related proposals, academics have said.

Banking on net zero ... by 2050

The Net Zero Banking Alliance has attracted some of the world's biggest lenders. What has been achieved so far, asks Thomas Cox

$10trn asset owner alliance urges blended climate finance push

The UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) has urged development finance institutions (DFIs) to better use public-private finance partnerships...

Gas, nuclear and the taxonomy: fuelling controversy

The EU is preparing to reveal its decision on whether to include nuclear and gas in its sustainability taxonomy. Michael Hurley presents the state of play

COP26 outcome suggests private finance left to pick up climate slack

The final text of the climate agreement by countries at the UN climate summit in Glasgow represents only incremental progress on previous conferences and leaves considerable slack for private finance to pick up on the path to net zero, according to commentators.

COP26 round-up, 3 November: UK, South Africa and GFANZ