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  • Rise of climate solutions is blurring lines between industries, AI analysis suggests

    06 February 2024

    Companies are investing more in 'climate solutions' such as battery storage and energy efficiency, in a trend that is increasingly "blurring the lines" between industries and bringing into question whether financial analysts can rely on historical assumptions, according to analysis of disclosures.

  • International Foundation for Valuing Impacts begins operations

    05 January 2023

    The International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) has officially started operations.

  • Greenwashing claims could 'undermine' responsible investment

    26 April 2022

    Inconclusive studies that claim ESG funds are 'greenwashing' could undermine the responsible investment movement, lawyers have warned.

  • Impact-Weighted Accounts set for overhaul as it eyes international stage

    10 February 2022

    The Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative is preparing to overhaul its strategy, Michael Hurley writes

  • Regulation to require Impact-Weighted Accounts 'is inevitable'

    21 October 2020

    Investors are likely to require regulatory oversight of companies' disclosure of the positive and negative impact they have on society, according to a leading proponent of impact investing.

  • Can impact be the guiding star for corporates?

    21 September 2020

    The Value Balancing Alliance's methodologies for assessing companies' net impact will define the future of corporate decision making, Christian Heller tells Michael Hurley

  • Circular economy webinar: Integration and data are key to development

    06 August 2020

    Accelerating investment in the circular economy requires banking innovation as well as increasingly holistic thinking and transparent data, the speakers at an Environmental Finance webinar said, with current progress leaving plenty of reasons to be upbeat. Ahren Lester reports.

  • Harvard publishes framework to measure impact of company products

    10 February 2020

    A framework for "systematic measurement of product impact in monetary terms" has been published by Harvard Business School.

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

    10 June 2019

    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".

  • People Moves: Columbia Threadneedle, Natixis, NBIM, BMO Capital Markets, Hong Kong Green Finance Association, FRC, Pattern Energy and NextEra Energy Partners

    04 January 2019

    Columbia Threadneedle boosts responsible investment team