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New York State Retirement Fund supports proposal to stop underwriting fossil fuels

The New York State comptroller has pledged to support of shareholder proposals that ask three insurance companies to stop underwriting new fossil fuel supplies.

The Hartford commits to net-zero by 2050

People Moves 18 March: JP Morgan, First Sentier, Zurich and more

An Islamic view of sustainable finance

Islamic finance could play a significant role in the move to a sustainable economy but is being ignored, according to an expert in the UK. Genevieve Redgrave reports.

COP26 round-up, 10 November: Cars, Amazon and asset owners

US insurers still behind Europeans on climate scorecard

Insure Our Future identifies major climate and fossil fuel laggards

Ford raises $15bn in first sustainability-linked facilities from a US automaker

Ford Motor Company has signed sustainability-linked revolving credit facilities worth a combined $15.5 billion, making it the first US automaker to tie its facilities to sustainability performance targets and one of the largest borrowers globally through this type of instrument.

Hartford Funds launches its first ESG ETF

Hartford Funds has launched its first environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-focused, actively managed exchange traded fund (ETF), Hartford Schroders ESG US Equity ETF (HEET)

Ceres: 'Troubling inconsistency' in corporate US climate policy approach

Some of the largest US companies have displayed "troubling inconsistency" by opposing climate action...

Climate lawsuits could win with better use of evidence, Oxford study finds

Better use of scientific evidence could help prove in court that corporations are liable for weather damage due to the impact of their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on climate change, a University of Oxford study has found.