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Sustainability a 'competitive differentiator' for Australian super funds

Increasing consumer pressure to be 'green' has led Australian super funds to use sustainability as a "competitive differentiator" from their competitors, the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) has said.

US launches natural capital accounting strategy

A strategy for integrating natural capital accounting into the US economic statistical system has been published by the US government, partly in response to demands from private finance.

NatureAlpha collaborates with IBAT

Data provider NatureAlpha has collaborated with the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) to provide data to help investors assess biodiversity risks of portfolio companies.

People Moves 20 January: UBS, Federated Hermes, CalPERS, Prudential, Nordea and more...

ISSB to allow omission of commercially sensitive information

Build up capital buffers to withstand the climate crisis, insurers told

Insurers and banks are massively underestimating climate risk, and the financial institutions' capital buffers will prove largely insufficient to cover the resulting losses, according to Finance Watch.

Eiopa: how we plan to stop insurers greenwashing

Europe's insurance authority explains its plans to address greenwashing, including how the term is defined and what measures it intends to take to prevent it, in this Q&A with Joshua Geer

Indian insurers 'encouraged' to invest in sovereign green bond

ISSB to push for progressive improvements in climate scenario analysis

Businesses reporting in line with proposed international sustainability standards will be asked to progressively improve their climate-related scenario analysis, after a vote yesterday.

Sustainability-themed investors 'structurally disadvantaged', says DWS

Sustainability-focused investors are "structurally disadvantaged" compared to mainstream counterparts, by insufficient sustainability-related disclosure standards and high costs for data, according to research by DWS.