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ESG in Fixed Income Americas 2023: BlackRock: 'transition investments are green'

BlackRock considers credible transition projects to be 'green', rather than putting them into a transition category, an Environmental Finance conference heard.

NZAOA urges removal of 'political barriers' blocking net-zero investment opportunities

Lombard Odier's Plastic Circularity fund draws pension fund and insurance investors

Lombard Odier Investment Managers has held a first close of its Plastic Circularity Fund, raising an undisclosed amount.

NZAOA members 'split' on sovereign debt climate target-setting

The thorny issue of how to set decarbonisation targets for sovereign debt has split the signatories of the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA), leading to a "compromise" of a proposed scoring system.

With a watered-down NZIA, where do insurers' climate commitments stand?

After six of the eight founding members left the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance, Joshua Geer investigates if their ambitions stand

First instalment of international 'impact accounting' methodology published

Axa chief: NZIA disintegration marks 'a sad chapter'

Axa's chief executive Thomas Buberl has described the exodus of insurers - including Axa - from the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) "as a sad chapter".

NZIA ditches all emissions targets for insurers

The Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) has scrapped all requirements for member firms to set and publish emissions reduction targets following a mass exodus of members in recent months.

Church of England Pensions Board leaves NZAOA

The Church of England Pensions Board has left the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA), citing the need to maintain "a clear focus on one net zero initiative".

'It will help us have more honest conversations'

Investors welcome the IFRS sustainability standards and say, by boosting comparability, they will aid engagement. Michael Hurley reports