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  • ESG indexes get smarter

    15 March 2019

    Combining factor investing and ESG, and adopting AI-based ESG data are among the hot trends in sustainability-focused indexes, writes Peter Cripps

  • People Moves: BMO Global Asset Management, ClimateWorks Foundation, Japan's Financial Services Agency, Rockefeller Capital Management, Global Parametrics, Refinitiv, Aviva Investors, FIM Asset Management and S-Bank Wealth Management

    15 March 2019

  • Shell sets first short-term climate targets

    15 March 2019

    Oil major Shell has set short-term targets to reduce its carbon emissions for the first time, in a move that has been welcomed by investors as a significant landmark for climate-related engagement.

  • FC4S launches Africa platform

    14 March 2019

    The UN-backed Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S) network has launched an African platform.

  • BNP Paribas asset management arm plans €1bn coal divestment

    14 March 2019

    BNP Paribas Asset Management plans to exclude about €1 billion ($1.1 billion) of stocks in thermal coal companies, as part of a new exclusion policy the firm hopes will help it align with the Paris Agreement goals.

  • Sustainalytics is biggest external reviewer in 2018

    13 March 2019

    Sustainalytics was the biggest provider of external reviews in the green, social and sustainability market in 2018, according to an analysis by Environmental Finance.

  • Green bond round-up: Société du Grand Paris, Duke Energy, ReNew Power, Kommuninvest, World Bank, Santa Fe

    13 March 2019

  • Political rifts foil EU taxonomy definition of ‘brown’ activities

    13 March 2019

    An effort to define criteria for economic activities with a negative environmental impact within the EU’s sustainability taxonomy has been thwarted by political divisions in the European Parliament.

  • Zurich reports under new impact measurement framework

    12 March 2019

    Zurich Insurance Group, with the help of BlackRock, has developed a "first of its kind" impact measurement framework that allows it to aggregate two key environmental and social metrics across different asset classes.

  • One-stop shop green securitisation service launched

    12 March 2019

    A service has been launched to help boost the issuance of green securitisations.