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  • Transition finance guidelines to be published 'by end of year'

    23 June 2020

    A working group convened by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) exploring the theme of 'climate transition finance' expects to publish guidelines by the end of the year, but stopped short of saying when a formal set of principles might be launched.

  • 2°II explains its break with Science-Based Targets initiative

    06 April 2020

    A disagreement that caused 2°II to walk away from the initiative boils down to whether it is appropriate to use the term 'science-based' to describe investor decarbonisation targets, writes Christopher Marchant

  • CLP to exit coal assets by 2050 amid end to new investments

    20 December 2019

    Asian electricity firm CLP has pledged to no longer invest in new coal-fired power stations ahead of exiting all its coal assets by 2050.

  • Science-Based Targets initiative sees uptake double

    05 December 2019

    The Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has seen uptake from corporates double over the past year-and-a-half.