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BankTrack: Equator Principles projects 'unsatisfactory' on local engagement

News Round Up: John Kerry, Mirova

Asset manager taskforce calls on bondholders to assert their rights

A UK government-initiated taskforce has announced recommendations to strengthen sustainable stewardship in the UK investment industry, including encouraging investors to assert their rights in the bond and private markets.

Evli launches forestry impact fund of funds

Finland's Evli Bank has launched a 'impact forest fund' that it says provides institutional investors and high net worth individuals "access to the world's leading forestry funds".

Putting a number on impact

A system for scoring impact has led to the creation of impact weighted indexes, Impak's Paul Allard tells Michael Hurley

'Seas impact fund' launched to invest in seaweed

A fund has been launched to invest in UK-based 'ocean plant production' such as seaweed, "which is set to become a multi-billion pound global industry" in coming decades, according to the fund manager.

Asian firms overtake US on emissions disclosure, says Arabesque

The proportion of Asian companies reporting carbon emissions has jumped above that of US firms in 2019, according to a report by sustainability-focused asset manager Arabesque, although European corporates continue to lead.

News Round Up: One Planet, UK infrastructure bank, Green REIT Index, and more

Climate transition: insurers should lobby government and engage corporates

Insurers have made progress on investment side but more effort needed in underwriting, Zurich head of sustainability says

Polluting companies banned from Chinese insurers' PE portfolios

CBIRC spells out environmental blacklist for private equity portfolios