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Green bond comment, June 2021: Are oil and gas firms still locked out of the sustainable bond market?

The labelled bond market needs to start helping dirty issuers finance the transition, argues Peter Cripps

Food systems: Investment risk and opportunity, Part one

Moving to more sustainable food production is necessary to cut GHG emissions and biodiversity loss - but assessing risk and opportunity can be hard, Michael Hurley writes

News round-up: Impax, NZAOA, Credit Suisse and Aviva

Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance adds five members

Eni publishes 'first' sustainability-linked financing framework for oil sector

Italian oil supermajor Eni has published its sustainability-linked financing framework supporting its 2050 net-zero emissions goal, believed to be the 'first' such framework from the oil and gas sector.

News round-up: Phoenix, Northern Trust, biodiversity and Canada

Phoenix invests £80m in Nissan's electric and hybrid vehicle manufacturing

Bain Double Impact invests in 'urgent care' provider

Bain Capital Double Impact has invested an undisclosed sum in ConvenientMD, which operates 'urgent care' clinics along the US East Coast.

2020 saw dip in emerging market impact fund launches, Phenix data show

Just 59 emerging market impact funds were launched last year - compared with 90 funds in 2019, and 58 in 2018, according to data provided by Phenix.

Phenix developing impact benchmarks

Phenix Capital is developing impact benchmark indexes and is canvassing large asset owners for their input, according to the data provider.