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  • EU's Non-Financial Reporting Directive results in 'insufficient climate information'

    30 November 2018

    The EU's Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) is not causing companies to adequately report key and material climate information needed by investors, a report argues.

  • Investors welcome EU's plans to be carbon neutral by 2050

    30 November 2018

    Investors have welcomed the EU Commission's plans to be carbon neutral by 2050.

  • People Moves: Gold Standard, Cicero, Investec AM and ShareAction

    30 November 2018

    Yvo de Boer has been announced as new president-elect of the Gold Standard Foundation Board, replacing David Shelmerdine.

  • France green bond supports 7% reduction in residential sector emissions

    30 November 2018

    France's ground-breaking sovereign green bond contributed to a projected 7% reduction in the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of the country's residential homes sector, the first report on the bond's impact has revealed.

  • Storebrand makes 2026 pledge to ‘exit death spiral of coal’

    30 November 2018

    Storebrand Asset Management has revealed a path to full divestment from coal in eight years’ time, in a strategy it says is in line with the goal to restrict climate change to a maximum of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

  • Fidelity launches sustainable water and waste fund

    29 November 2018

    A fund to invest in sustainable water and waste management products has been launched by $411 billion investment manager Fidelity International.

  • Natixis Assurances to boost green assets to 10% of AuM

    29 November 2018

    French insurer Natixis Assurances is to increase the proportion of its investments that qualify as green to 10% of its total assets under management (AuM) by 2030.

  • Green Bonds round-up, 28 November

    28 November 2018

    France's state-owned postal company La Poste saw its inaugural €500 million ($564 million) green bond attract orders amounting to more than €2.1 billion.

  • EDF signs €4bn ESG-indexed revolving credit facility

    28 November 2018

    French electricity utility EDF has signed a green revolving credit facility (RCF) worth €4 billion ($4.5 billion), for which the payments will depend on sustainability-related performance indicators.

  • Large food brands’ reporting failure raises their climate risk, says Ceres

    28 November 2018

    The majority of the largest food and drinks brands in the US and Canada currently fail to report on emissions from their supply chain, raising their exposure to climate-related risk, Ceres has said.