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Canada, Japan targeted in PRI sovereign engagement initiative expansion

Canada and Japan are the next focus countries for the collaborative sovereign investor engagement initiative launched by the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

Safeguarding the EU's sustainable finance framework is critical for its competitiveness

Efforts to make the EU's sustainable finance regulations work better for everyone are welcome, but investors need high-quality sustainability data and regulatory certainty, write Stephanie Pfeifer, Aleksandra Palinska, and David Atkin

Biodiversity funds suffer outflows in 2024

Despite overall assets within the biodiversity fund universe growing in 2024, many established funds suffered from significant outflows.

Investors sound alarm that EU's Omnibus threatens 'significant weakening' of ESG data

The European Commission's plans to overhaul sustainability reporting risk hollowing out the EU sustainable finance framework and jeopardising its Green Deal, it has been warned by investors with a combined €6.6 trillion ($6.8 trillion) in assets.

SWEN leads £31m funding round in UK green hydrogen business

Policy advocacy a gap in investor transition plans, Investor Agenda says

Investors' climate transition plans are widely "lacking" in information on how they intend to push policymakers and regulators to act on climate, according to a review of 230 institutional investors' plans.

PRI's Spring launches progress-tracking framework

The Principles for Responsible Investment's nature engagement initiative, Spring, has launched an assessment framework to track company progress against its expectations for reducing biodiversity loss and nature impact.

Verdemobil Biogaz raises €150m from trio of backers

EU proposal to bring sustainable finance rules into single regulation risks 'chaos'

Suggestions that the EU could bring sustainable finance-related disclosure rules into a single, 'omnibus' regulation to "reduce the reporting burden" risks unnecessary chaos, thinktank E3G has said.

UN Principles for Responsible Banking cuts reporting requirements