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Video: Alessia Falsarone on the importance of bondholder engagement
08 November 2022Alessia Falsarone, head of sustainable investing portfolio strategy at Pineridge Investments, shares her view on the importance of bondholder engagement.
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Investors urged to vote against Sembcorp coal plant deal
07 November 2022The financial engineering behind Sembcorp's proposed sale of two coal-fired plants means the transaction is a "quick and dirty solution" to decarbonisation, and highlights the weaknesses of some sustainability-linked bond (SLB) structures, a think-tank has argued.
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B4NZ call for support of UK SMEs
07 November 2022Bankers for Net Zero (B4NZ), the UK chapter of the UN's Net-Zero Banking Alliance, will launch a shared climate reporting framework for smaller businesses.
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AI data providers 'not there yet' for sustainable bond data solutions
07 November 2022The technology behind artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) is not currently capable of providing investors with the tools they need to "meaningfully and quickly" extract data...
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The role of blended financing in a just energy transition
07 November 2022The current 'poly crisis' presents an opportunity to combine economic and environmental policies allowing sustainable development, write Gustavo Medeiros and Iselin Aslakstrom
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COP27: New investors join deforestation alliance
07 November 2022Institutions including asset manager GAM Investments have joined Finance Sector Deforestation Action (FSDA) initiative as COP27 kicks off in Egypt.
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COP27 needs to deliver on transition finance, says UOB
07 November 2022COP27 needs to 'lean into' the concept of transition finance to help deliver net zero, especially in developing markets, UOB has told Environmental Finance.
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SGX developing sustainable bond listing initiative
07 November 2022The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has exclusively announced at an Environmental Finance event that it plans to launch a sustainable bond initiative to provide "added assurance" for investors around reporting and greater visibility for issuers.
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Canada ranked bottom in G7 climate-readiness league table
07 November 2022Canada ranks bottom in Aviva's newly-launched 'Climate-Ready Index' - a framework to measure how G7 nations and Ireland are progressing on climate mitigation, resilience and adaptation.
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Look past ESG scores to hedge climate risks, Fed study says
07 November 2022A sample investment portfolio of stocks with low carbon intensity proved a better hedge against an unexpected climate shock than one constituted of firms with a relatively good environmental score, according to a study by the US Federal Reserve.