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Sustainable finance: it's all about transition! Part two
13 September 2019In the second of this two-part series, Hervé P. Duteil explores the concept of Transition Finance and its limits, and proposes a non-prescriptive framework to start thinking about transition bonds (and loans)
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Growing the NY Green Bank
13 September 2019NY Green Bank's Alfred Griffin will deliver a keynote address at next week’s ESG in Fixed Income conference, featuring Green Bonds Americas. He tells Michael Hurley about the bank's next moves
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People Moves: SSGA, UBS
13 September 2019State Street hires Funk
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Don’t rely on easy climate gains in land-use sector, PRI report warns
13 September 2019Existing climate scenarios lean too heavily on the expectation of major cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the land use sector and investors are therefore underestimating the amount of reductions that will need to happen in other sectors, according to a report commissioned by the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
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Rising to the challenge
13 September 2019While the mandatory carbon markets await new rules, the voluntary market remains buoyant and is pushing into new areas. Katie Kouchakji talks to this year's winners of our Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings to find out what's cooking.
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Foresight launches A$150m fund for CBI-certified loans
13 September 2019Foresight hopes to raise A$150 million ($100 million) for a fund that will make loans to Australian small-scale renewable energy infrastructure projects.
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Bringing biodiversity risk into focus
Unanticipated biodiversity exposures can blow budgets, derail projects and shred corporate reputations. That's why a growing number of companies and financial institutions are turning to IBAT's authoritative global biodiversity datasets. Mark Nicholls reports
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APG and PGGM target SDGs with AI platform
12 September 2019Dutch pension fund managers PGGM and APG are set to launch an artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform to help institutional investors target the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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US ESG funds fail to support shareholder resolutions, suggests SEC
11 September 2019US-based funds that claim to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when they invest generally fail to support shareholder votes on such topics, according to a senior official at the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Telecoms green bonds ‘in top half’ of S&P’s Green Evaluation
11 September 2019Green telecom bonds would fall in the top half of S&P’s scoring range under its Green Evaluation analysis, indicating a positive environmental impact, according to a report by the ratings agency.