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  • Net Zero Ventures bags €125m for first close

    07 June 2024

  • Oil and gas giants' climate opacity keeps investors in the dark, CA100+ assessments show

    27 March 2024

    The poor quality of climate disclosures by the 10 largest oil and gas companies globally is keeping investors in the dark and hindering their engagement efforts, analysis for the Climate Action 100+ initiative suggests.

  • Oil and gas giants a long way from Paris, claims Carbon Tracker

    20 March 2024

  • Bond investors 'now pricing in' oil and gas firm climate strategies

    27 March 2023

    Fixed income investors have increasingly been pricing in the climate strategies of oil and gas firms following the energy crisis sparked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to ABN Amro.

  • Oil majors to pilot net zero model that pits winding-down as 'legitimate' strategy

    15 September 2021

    BP, Eni, Repsol, Shell and Total are the first oil companies to agree to pilot an investor-led standard that is designed to improve comparability of transition plans, and "acknowledges winding-down as a legitimate strategy".

  • Sustainable bond issuance sets fresh record

    24 August 2021

    2021 sustainable bond issuance has already surpassed the record-breaking 2020 total, supported by rising interest in sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds from corporate issuers. Ahren Lester reports

  • Green Bond Comment, August 2021: A new dawn for the beleaguered transition bond label?

    04 August 2021

    Once seen as the next exciting frontier in sustainable fixed income, the take-up of transition bonds has so far underwhelmed the market. But could the beleaguered label stage a fight back, asks Ahren Lester

  • Bond round-up: NN IP, Repsol, Suzano, Bank of China, Hongkong Land... and more

    07 July 2021

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

    02 June 2021

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

  • Oil and gas majors release joint transition principles

    17 December 2020

    Eight energy companies - BP, Eni, Equinor, Galp, Occidental, Repsol, Royal Dutch Shell and Total - have jointly developed a set of energy transition principles.