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Australian industry drowning under sustainability requirements, says Fiona Reynolds

Companies and institutional investors in Australia are "drowning" in a flood of new sustainability requirements, ex-Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) head Fiona Reynolds has said.

CDC Biodiversité to add three sectors to biodiversity footprint tool

CDC is planning to expand its biodiversity footprinting tool to enable simplified assessments of three sectors in more detail, as asset managers trial the methodology with private portfolio companies.

Deutsche Bank agrees green loan for Vietnamese manufacturing factory

Bank of England to explore whether climate capital requirements needed

The Bank of England said it will "explore whether changes to the macroprudential framework might be appropriate" to help protect against climate risks,...

ECB: Climate disclosures a 'priority' for structured finance assets

Encouraging climate-related disclosures on the assets underpinning structured finance products is a "priority", the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) and European Central Bank (ECB) said in a joint statement.

Largest financial institutions find water 'critical' to investment

RepRisk launches tool to address ESG ratings opacity

Credit research institute I-CV and ESG data business RepRisk have launched ESG Radar

Measuring the financial consequences of climate transition

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

Zurich excludes five fossil-fuel companies with non-credible transition plans

Zurich has excluded five companies from its investment and underwriting activities as it no longer considered their "progress against transition plans to be credible".

US regulator recommends creating category for environmental derivatives

A commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has recommended the creation of a team to tackle greenwashing in derivatives markets