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Bridges exits Vegetarian Express to NVM Private Equity

Indonesian taxonomy 'muddies the waters' with inclusion of coal

Bain is first company to make VCMI credit claim

Management consultancy Bain & Company become the first organisation to make the highest-level of carbon integrity claim under the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative (VCMI) claims code.

Philippines publishes sustainable finance taxonomy

Support CSDDD to save lives, expert group urges German government

Biodiversity funds top $1 billion for first time

Biodiversity fund assets topped $1 billion for the first time in 2023, but the majority of funds in the universe remain small.

European legal battles force better corporate climate accounting

TotalEnergies and ING are among the firms to face legal action from activist shareholders, write Gerben Schreurs and Paul Menoret-Renard

SEC dropping Scope 3 disclosure requirement will not prevent legal action, lawyer warns

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s reported plan to drop a requirement that would require publicly listed companies to disclose value chain emissions will not protect the government agency from legal action, a lawyer has said.

Investors have 'sleepless nights' over net zero targets tied to estimated data

Institutional investors lose sleep over net zero targets for which progress reporting is tied to huge volumes of estimated data, particularly data relating to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from a company's value chain, a conference heard.

Dutch banks begin using 'first' ESG-themed valuation framework for real estate

ABN Amro, ING and Rabobank are among banks starting to use an updated, 'first-of-its-kind' framework for valuing real estate which covers sustainability factors including climate risk.