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  • How to make CSDD fit for purpose: The investor perspective

    17 April 2023

    The EU must work to ensure coherence between due diligence rules and those for sustainability disclosures, write Emily Murrell, Elise Attal and Aleksandra Palinska

  • CBI launches sustainability-linked bond certification scheme

    13 April 2023

    The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has launched a certification scheme for sustainability-linked bonds and company-level transition plans, in what the influential not-for-profit called a "major step forward" for financial markets.

  • NY Fed: US bank transition risk exposure 'meaningful, but manageable'

    11 April 2023

    Research by the New York Federal Reserve said that US banks have a "meaningful" but "not very large" exposure to climate transition risk in their loan portfolios, with even the most severe scenarios impacting no more than 16% of their loan books.

  • GIIN releases listed equity impact guidance

    31 March 2023

    The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has released its guidance for what impact looks like in a listed equities fund.

  • Australia considers launching 'world first' biodiversity market

    29 March 2023

    A bill for a "world first" biodiversity restoration scheme for 'nature repair certificates' has been introduced to the Australian parliament.

  • NatureVest: Demand for biodiversity credits outstripping supply

    24 March 2023

    Demand from investors and corporates for biodiversity credits is far exceeding the available supply, an executive at NatureVest has said.

  • AllianzGI launches sustainability data product

    22 March 2023

    Allianz Global Investors has launched a sustainability data product which it says will enable its investment teams to better navigate the "ever more challenging ESG data landscape".

  • Nuveen launches real estate decarbonisation strategy

    20 March 2023

  • Investors 'throwing themselves' at sustainable bonds

    16 March 2023

    The labelling of bonds as green, social, sustainability, or sustainability-linked has helped them secure more demand from 'green' investors and pricing benefits during an uncertain time for fixed income,...

  • Measuring the financial consequences of climate transition

    13 March 2023

    Joseph Noss looks at why backward-looking emissions reporting provides no guarantee of reducing exposure to transition risk