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London pooling

A pool of London pension schemes is overhauling its responsible investment strategy, including managing climate risk and investing for impact, writes Michael Hurley

News round-up: US ditches ESG pension fund rules, Axa drops Rwe, Xpansiv launches nature-based carbon offset contracts

US labour department drops restrictive ESG rules for pension funds

Axa drops RWE as customer

Xpansiv to launch nature-based carbon emissions offsets

Sustainable bond pricing perk 'not enough' for emerging market issuers

A webinar organised by Environmental Finance and the IFC heard from emerging market issuers of green, social and sustainability bonds about their experiences. Ahren Lester reports

People Moves 12 March: Phoenix; Solebury Trout; ABI

Impact fund provides grants to support IIRC, SASB merger

The Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing has provided grants worth $500,000 to the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) - to help "unify the impact investing market behind a global standard", it said.

How to be practical about carbon pricing

Carbon pricing has a critical role to play in combating climate change but scaling it up will take time, says Prajwal Baral

News round-up: Moody's and Green Finance Institute