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  • The accountability backlash has begun

    29 April 2024

    Companies appear increasingly less tolerant of shareholders' dissenting opinions on risk management, governance, and pay, writes Lindsey Stewart

  • Decline of Article 9 funds nearing end and Article 8 continues to soar, Barclays finds

    26 April 2024

    The decline of funds classified as Article 9 under the EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is set to reverse, Barclays has claimed.

  • Landmark moment as climate risks included in 'Magna Carta of banking supervision'

    26 April 2024

    Prominent central bankers have welcomed the inclusion of climate change among a group of potentially material risks to financial stability in the global banking supervision principles for the first time, meaning regulators and banks must identify and address such risks.

  • Mirova to question companies on biodiversity commitments ahead of AGMs

    26 April 2024
  • Solas Capital funds Spanish solar PV portfolio

    26 April 2024
  • MDBs set to increase GSSS commitments, Sustainable Fitch claims

    26 April 2024
  • European Parliament votes to 'break down' composite ESG ratings

    26 April 2024

    The European Parliament has given the go-ahead to 'world first' regulation on ESG ratings, which encourages an end to the use of aggregate ratings that give an overall sustainability score.

  • 'Dividing line' between transition and business strategies is fading fast

    26 April 2024

    The convergence of climate transition and financial business strategies is becoming more prominent and is helping drive greater sophistication in transition planning by issuers, sustainable finance experts told an Environmental Finance event.

  • Financial accounting of net-zero commitments? Not yet, IASB says

    26 April 2024

    A decision on whether net-zero commitments should be recognised under IAS 37 lays bare an expectation gap between backward-looking financial accounting and forward-looking sustainability perspectives. Vincent Huck reports

  • People Moves, 26 April: Glass Lewis, Abris, NTR, Circulate Capital, Mediolanum ... and more

    26 April 2024