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  • Preqin launches ESG fund performance benchmarks

    11 April 2024
  • Investors ramp up engagement on 'responsible' AI

    11 April 2024

    Ensuring the responsible use of artificial intelligence is emerging as an important part of investor engagement strategies, writes Michael Hurley

  • Standard Chartered guide to address adaptation and resilience finance shortfall

    11 April 2024

    Standard Chartered Bank has launched a guide to align sector-wide efforts solve the adaptation and resilience finance shortfall.

  • Foresight eyes first close of second energy transition fund

    11 April 2024
  • HSBC, Citi among banks banned by West Virginia over fossil fuel 'boycotts'

    11 April 2024
  • World Bank releases 'game-changing' streamlined impact metrics

    11 April 2024

    The World Bank has released a new impact outcomes 'scorecard' which will be deployed across all its institutions for the first time, which was described as "game-changing" for the development bank.

  • European Parliament approves 'world first' carbon removal certificate

    11 April 2024

    The European Parliament has formally approved a certification framework for carbon removal projects, but carbon market participants have warned this does not go far enough.

  • Ninety One: Divesting is not impacting high emitters

    11 April 2024

    The real-world impact of investors' net zero commitments is currently unclear, according to Ninety One Asset Management, calling on investors to "shift focus from reducing financed emissions to financing reduced emissions".

  • 'Regulators could follow TCFD example' by making TPT mandatory

    11 April 2024

    Guidance on 'gold standard' climate transition plans could be implemented in UK regulation, following the example of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), according to a senior lawyer.

  • SBTi warms to offsets, in massive move for voluntary carbon market

    10 April 2024

    The Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has said it will take a more accommodative stance towards carbon credits, in a move one observer described as a "massive" moment for the voluntary carbon market.