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MAS launches climate fintech programme

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has launched climate fintech programme, Point Carbon Zero, in collaboration with Google Cloud.

GHG 'accountability crisis' requires single standard

There is an "accountability crisis" around carbon emissions that can only be solved through government intervention and "mandatory disclosure", market experts warned.

Sustainalytics delivers most SPOs in first half of 2022

Sustainalytics provided the most second-party opinions (SPOs) for sustainable finance frameworks in the first half of 2022, according to Environmental Finance figures.

Oxford summit investors doubt if net zero pledges will decarbonise world at all

Finance sector net-zero pledges will likely have "no positive impact" on real economy decarbonisation, according to about one-third of investors and academic attendees at a specialist sustainable finance event.

Climate resilience taxonomy is CBI's 'next big project'

Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is preparing a 'climate resilience taxonomy' after it updated its green bond methodology and published its social and sustainability bond methodology.

Companies with ESG ratings upgrades outperform sector, says Jefferies

Aquila energy trust commits further £29m

Investors face 'growing political backlash' to ESG

Some large investors are having to consider hostile political responses to ESG when taking environmental action, an executive at Sustainable Fitch has said.

MSCI: 39% of ACWI exposed to biodiversity risk

Almost two in five (39%) constituents of MSCI's flagship global equity index have at least one asset located in an area sensitive to biodiversity loss, the firm said.

ISO publishes final 'green' taxonomy