Archive

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

    26 February 2024

    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

    26 February 2024

    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.

  • ICMA draws up a 'Common Ground Taxonomy' for transition plans

    26 February 2024

    The influential trade association wants issuer to act on transition plans before regulations arrive, and has provided a high-level tool to get the process started. Ahren Lester reports

  • Tanzanian water authority issues 'historic' green bond

    26 February 2024

    Tanga Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Authority (Tanga UWASA) has issued a TZS53.1 billion ($21 million) 'water green bond,' which is believed to be the first municipal agency sustainable bond issuance in East Africa

  • 'Learning-by-doing ISSB reporting raises challenges for assurance'

    23 February 2024

    Organisations preparing reports in line with international sustainability standards are faced with the prospect of 'learning by doing' - which will make the job of assurance providers more challenging, an expert has said.

  • People Moves, 23 February: Sustainable Fitch, AIB, Climate X, IFRS Foundation ... and more

    23 February 2024
  • Impact accounting framework released - with $236 per tonne cost of carbon

    23 February 2024

    The International Foundation for Valuing Impacts has published two draft methodologies - on greenhouse gas emissions and adequate wages. Michael Hurley speaks with Daniel Osusky

  • Faber issues rallying cry as regulators diverge from ISSB, jeopardising its mission

    23 February 2024

    The chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) has issued a "call to action" for regulators to unite behind by the organisation's standards, warning that divergence from them threatens to undermine its mission.

  • Indigenous engagement guide launched for Australian renewable energy projects

    23 February 2024
  • Switzerland encouraged to use debt-for-nature swaps

    23 February 2024

    The Swiss government has been encouraged to help scale up private investment in biodiversity, either through providing first-loss capital or developing debt-for-nature swaps.