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EU’s TEG unveils final reports in milestone moment for sustainable finance
18 June 2019In what has been billed a landmark moment for sustainable finance, a far-reaching set of recommendations for a taxonomy of sustainability economic activities, an EU Green Bond Standard and climate-themed benchmark indexes has been published.
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Investors name and shame 700 companies for poor environmental impact reporting
17 June 2019Investors with almost $10 trillion in assets have begun pushing more than 700 companies, including ExxonMobil, Amazon and Volvo, to disclose better environmental impact information.
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Introduce tax exemption for green bond investors, Canada told
14 June 2019Canada’s government has been encouraged to establish a comply-or-explain approach to climate-related disclosures, introduce tax incentives to encourage green bond issuance and develop a ‘transition-oriented’ taxonomy.
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Spatial data's potential to spot environmental risk in sovereign bonds
14 June 2019Data generated by satellite imagery can help sovereign bond investors better assess environmental risks that could weaken a country's economy, a report said.
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People moves: UNFCCC: London Collective Investment Vehicle: Aon Securities
14 June 2019The United Nations Framework Concerning Climate Change (UNFCCC) has hired Padraig Oliver as a climate finance programme officer.
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ESMA urges EU Commission to increase sustainability regulation
14 June 2019The European Commission has been urged by an EU supervisory authority to introduce regulation, rather than non-binding guidelines, in areas such as requiring sustainability-related disclosures and accreditation of green bond second opinion providers.
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Pimco, AfDB, Iberdrola and ING elected to GBP executive committee
13 June 2019US investment management giant Pimco and Dutch bank ING are among four institutions to have been elected to the executive committee of the Green Bond Principles (GBPs) and Social Bond Principles (SBPs).
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GBPs map 'green' project eligibility against other taxonomies
13 June 2019A mapping of how the influential Green Bond Principles' (GBPs) judgment of "greenness" corresponds with that of other standards and taxonomies has been published.
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Green bond round-up, 12 June 2019
12 June 2019The US Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) plans to enter the green bond market with a new commercial mortgage-backed security programme.
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AXA IM pens 'transition bond guidelines'
12 June 2019AXA Investment Managers has penned guidelines for issuing 'transition bonds', arguing that the development of this new asset class is necessary to stop the green bond market being undermined.