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Trump plan to renegotiate Paris dismissed as 'smoke and mirrors'

President Trump's suggestion that the US wants to renegotiate the Paris Agreement, when he announced the country's withdrawal from it, has been dismissed as smoke and mirrors by one industry analyst.

Breadth of ESG screening at Talanx touches €100bn mark

Talanx Group has expanded its screening of investments by non-financial criteria to cover 90% of its €110 billion ($123.4 billion) own portfolio, but requested stakeholders be patient as it implements the practice fully, which is "not a sprint".

Green bond market growth has slowed, says underwriter

Green bond market growth has slowed, says underwriter.

With the US out of Paris, will environmental investments increasingly shift to China?

Abandoning the Paris Climate Accord will come back to haunt the US, and China will benefit, argues Karine Hirn

Trump exits Paris Agreement, investors pour scorn

President Donald Trump followed through on his threat to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Accord, despite howls of protest that the US would surrender its leadership on climate action.

US withdrawal from Paris Agreement 'an irrelevance', say investors

With President Trump widely expected to announce the US' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement today, investors are sceptical over its implications on global climate action with one branding it an 'irrelevance'.

Could Mission Innovation be next to fall under Trump's environmental axe?

Shareholder climate success at Exxon

A shareholder resolution calling for ExxonMobil to do more to tackle climate change received a significant majority, despite not being backed by the board.

Repsol green bond excluded from main indexes

The controversy over Repsol's green bond continued to burn today after it emerged that it has been excluded from most of the main green bond indexes.

Green bond round-up, 31 May 2017

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has published disclosure requirements for green bonds.