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

    04 October 2021

    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.

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

    13 July 2021

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

  • CA100+ ups pressure on corporates to align lobbying with Paris Agreement

    26 October 2020

    Institutional investors with a combined $6.5 trillion in AUM have issued "urgent" demands to 47 of the largest US-based corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters to disclose their climate lobbying practices.

  • 'Responsibility reporting is now mainstream, but still not linked to performance'

    09 December 2013

    The majority of big companies produce Corporate Responsibility (CR) reports but only 5% are linked to financial performance, leaving them open to accusations that they are merely 'greenwash', an event to mark the launch of a new study heard.

  • IFC issues second $1bn green bond of 2013

    06 November 2013

    The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched its second $1 billion green bond of 2013, and called on other development banks to follow it with more 'benchmark' issues.