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Measuring the financial consequences of climate transition
13 March 2023Joseph Noss looks at why backward-looking emissions reporting provides no guarantee of reducing exposure to transition risk
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Canadian regulator to require climate disclosures, scenario analysis
08 March 2023Canadian banks and insurance companies are to be required to conduct climate-related scenario analysis and disclose climate transition plans from next year.
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Nuveen: Expect more 'debt-for-nature' deals after Barbados 'blue' bond
07 March 2023Nuveen expects more debt-for-nature deals as it confirms its anchor investment in the Barbados 'blue' bond, with the $1.1 trillion manager expecting 2023 to be key for the development of blended finance.
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More consensus needed on impact, says Morningstar
03 March 2023More consensus is needed on the definition of an 'impact investment' to help the market continue expanding, Morningstar has said.
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Low-carbon benchmarks risk pulling assets from EMs, warns Prudential
01 March 2023Some climate indexes risk unintentionally "pulling funding away from countries that need it the most" to transform their still-developing economies, a major Asian insurer has warned.
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Sustainable bond fund assets dip to $34bn in 2022
28 February 2023Despite a bumper crop of fund launches and many established funds reporting robust net inflows, global sustainable bond fund assets fell more than 6% as tough markets dragged on performance. Ahren Lester reports
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Biodiversity fund assets triple in 2022 to nearly $1bn
27 February 2023Assets in biodiversity funds passed $984 million at the end of 2022, with a flurry of strategy launches despite macroeconomic woes, Thomas Cox reports
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HSBC: Biodiversity investing in its 'infancy'
20 February 2023Biodiversity-related investing is "in its infancy" with only a "limited" number of relevant investment products available to investors, an executive at HSBC Asset Management has said.
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Swiss Life: Biodiversity impact opportunity thin on the ground
17 February 2023A Swiss Life co-manager of a listed equities impact fund has said the investment opportunity in companies having positive impact on biodiversity "remains thin".
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World Bank issues 'unique' carbon credit-linked bond
15 February 2023The World Bank has raised $50 million from an outcomes-based bond which links its coupon payments to verified carbon credits generated by a water purification project, described as a "unique" and "important" deal by investors backing the transaction.