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  • EIOPA: ESG tops risk list for insurers and pensions

    14 December 2021

    Environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks are expected to have the greatest increase in materiality for both the insurance and pensions sector, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has said.

  • UBP launches biodiversity listed equities fund

    14 December 2021

    UBP has launched a listed equities fund targeting positive, measurable contribution to biodiversity, making it one of the first such funds targeting the theme and enabling the Swiss private bank to tap into a theme its manager predicts could support a strategy of up to $2 billion in size.

  • Indonesian paper firm expansion 'litmus test' for 'net-zero' banks

    14 December 2021

    The substantial financing being sought by two Indonesian paper and pulp firms to support their expansion plans has been described by environmental groups as a "litmus test"...

  • Investors must scrutinise Asian companies' CCS assumptions

    14 December 2021

    Investors have been urged to carefully scrutinise the carbon capture and storage solutions (CCS) projections associated with the net-zero transition plans of Asian companies.

  • Schroders launches food, water and climate funds

    14 December 2021

    Schroders has launched two listed equities funds, focusing on climate change and food & water, respectively.

  • Aviva launches social and natural capital 'transition' funds

    14 December 2021

    Aviva Investors has launched two funds targeting positive social and environmental impact in the shift to a low-carbon economy...

  • G7 taskforce recommends ISSB-led move to 'mandatory' impact accounting

    13 December 2021

    Global standards for sustainability reporting should be extended to enable governments to require mandatory company accounting of their positive and negative social and environmental impact on all stakeholders, G7 countries have been told.

  • NN IP: Green bonds phase out, not 'phase down' fossil fuels

    13 December 2021

    The green bond market will increasingly push companies to 'phase out' fossil fuel energy in coming years, and push issuers to go beyond countries' pledges to 'phase down' coal...

  • Climate action: The proof and the pudding

    13 December 2021

    Robert Spruijt outlines some of the main sustainability initiatives on which ING is working

  • Transition, social taxonomy reports delayed to 2022

    13 December 2021

    The publication of reports exploring how the EU could extend its sustainability taxonomy to cover 'transition' activities, and a separate document studying a potential taxonomy of social activities, has been postponed until 2022.