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Paris rail project plans €31.5bn green bond programme
22 October 2018The French state-owned company developing a rail project in Paris has laid out plans for a mammoth green bond issuance programme worth as much as €31.5 billion ($36 billion).
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Investors pressure oil and gas companies to improve methane disclosures
22 October 2018Investor heavyweights Robeco and California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) have thrown their weight behind an initiative urging oil and gas companies to improve their disclosure of methane emissions.
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People moves: IOSCO, London Stock Exchange Group, Simmons & Simmons, UBS
19 October 2018Peter Damgaard Jensen has been appointed as co-organizer of the newly founded Global Commission on Adaptation. Damgaard Jensen also acts as CEO of Danish pension scheme PKA and chair of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), an investor association taking action to support a low-carbon future.
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Mission-led finance: New ideas in European policymaking
19 October 2018Policymakers need to shift focus from filling investment gaps to creating new trajectories for ambitious low-carbon innovation, says Mariana Mazzucato. A missions-led approach should be at the heart of efforts align the economy with climate and sustainability goals, she tells Environmental Finance.
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Private equity will struggle to implement TCFD, lawyer predicts
19 October 2018Private equity firms will struggle to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) across their many portfolio companies, a lawyer has predicted.
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Fiduciary duty proposal of EU Action Plan could unleash sustainability shift
18 October 2018Plans to reform definitions of investors' duties are the most important part of the European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan, Environmental Finance’s Green Equities conference heard.
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UK Financial Reporting Council to set up climate lab
18 October 2018A working group to improve company reporting of information related to climate change is to be established by the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC).
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Legislation to clarify fiduciary duty could be mistake, says law firm
18 October 2018Efforts to clarify investors’ fiduciary duty with regards to environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in regulation are misplaced and could “unnecessarily box investors in”, according to law firm Baker McKenzie.
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Leave taxonomies to the private sector, says Impax
18 October 2018The task of writing taxonomies for sustainable finance is best left to the private sector, according to Impax Asset Management.
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Sustainable food tech 'hot in venture capital'
18 October 2018Sustainable food technology is a significant investment opportunity, said investors on a private equity panel of Environmental Finance’s Green Equities conference.