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Amazon backs using SASB as basis for EU standards
11 September 2024Retail giant Amazon and asset manager Capital Group have lent their support to calls for the EU to base its sector-specific sustainability reporting standards on those used in the IFRS S2 standards.
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Upright launches 'first-ever' open database for science-based impact
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Evans and Partners backs Osmosis' ex-fossil fuels fund
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Sustainable Debt Round-up: EU, EIB, Fingrid ... and more
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Generalists can provide value-add to impact specialists on transactions
11 September 2024Institutional investors tend to allocate capital towards highly-focused, specialised impact investors rather than those taking a more generalist approach, but both types can add value to a deal.
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MUFG, Doha Bank sign first Middle Eastern 'green repo' deal
11 September 2024MUFG and Doha Bank have finalised the first 'green repo' scheme signed in the Middle East, with the transaction using green bonds as the underlying collateral.
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HSBC offering discounted loans for sustainable farming in the UK
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Investors need clearer price signals from nature opportunities, says New Forests
11 September 2024Clearer price signals are needed to make nature positive investments "more economically attractive" to investors, according to Australian nature investor New Forests.
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MSCI: 'Striking' rise of climate adaptation in utility green bonds
11 September 2024MSCI said there has been a "striking increase" in the prominence of climate adaptation projects in green bonds from the utility sector, as attention focuses on strengthening transmission assets to extreme weather.
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'Standardisation is simplification, not burden': EFRAG's de Cambourg in riposte to Draghi
10 September 2024One of the key figures behind the EU's sustainability reporting standards has defended them after they were criticised by political heavyweight Mario Draghi as contributing to the sustainability reporting burden.