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Care needed over embedding nature into climate efforts, says pension fund

Investors should proceed with caution with how much they integrate natural capital into broader climate remits, a French pension fund has warned.

Natural Capital Investment EMEA returns on Tuesday

Environmental Finance's 6th annual Natural Capital Investment EMEA conference returns to London on 4 March.

Investors worth £5trn push BP for a 'say on climate', amid concerns it will abandon 2030 target

A group of institutional investors has urged BP to hold a shareholder vote on its climate transition plans, amid "concern" at reports the oil and gas company will abandon a key decarbonisation target.

ERAFP and FRR to develop 'method to measure the effectiveness of engagement'

A group of major French asset owners has co-led the creation of a group to devise a way to measure the effectiveness of investor engagement with corporates and their asset managers on issues including climate change.

ERAFP hands SRI bond mandates to Axa IM, MSIM

Nordea, Kempen among new Finance for Biodiversity Pledge signatories

Financial firms managing more than €12 trillion ($13.6 trillion) in assets have now signed the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge after nine new signatories joined the initiative, including Nordea Asset Management and Kempen.

$14trn investor group pushes for AGM vote on 'net zero' claims

A group of 53 investors with a combined $14 trillion of assets under management has called for new climate-related corporate governance measures, including an annual general meeting (AGM) vote on corporate 'net zero' transition plans.

ERAFP opens tender for €1bn multi-asset fund of funds

French pension fund ERAFP has launched a call for tenders for two new diversified fund of funds mandates for a portfolio worth a combined €1 billion ($1.15 billion).

€40bn planned climate endowment to invest in 'green industrial revolution'

A planned "climate endowment" fund hopes to raise between €20 billion ($22.6 billion) and €40 billion to enable institutional investors to invest in "the champions of the green industrial revolution".

Amundi's one-year-old green bond fund 'ahead of schedule'

The world's largest green bond fund bought more green-labelled issuance in its first year than originally anticipated, Frédéric Samama tells Michael Hurley