Ahren Lester

News round-up: Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan commits to net-zero, EIB says 'gas is over', pension funds' climate demands for UK government ... and more

Funds of the year: Active Solar

Active Solar delivered a 170% return in 2020 - but the fund manager says it is still just the beginning. Ahren Lester reports

Green and sustainability-linked loan round-up: Gaw Capital, Questel, Batilogistic ... and more

Bond round-up: Klabin, Cades, Digital Realty, SK Hynix, EIB, LBBW ... and more

EU asks expert group to clarify transition activities in Taxonomy

Sustainable bond market could hit $725bn in 2021, says CA-CIB

10% of firms face ejection as FTSE4Good tightens climate rules

Around 10% of all constituents on the FTSE4Good indexes face exclusion after the climate thresholds are tightened through a tie-up with the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) scores.

French central bank tightens fossil fuel exclusions for €22bn portfolio

The Banque de France (BdF) has tightened the fossil fuel company exclusions applied to its own investment portfolio worth €22 billion ($27 billion), but campaigners called on the bank to "apply the same level of ambition to the immediate decarbonization of the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policy".

Final EU Taxonomy criteria delayed after draft proposals response

The publication of the final technical screening criteria (TSC) for the EU Taxonomy for sustainable activities have been delayed as the European Commission wades through the more than 46,000 responses to the consultation on the draft criteria.

US regulator banking rule seeks to 'prop up' fossil fuel financing

The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has been accused of staging a "last ditch" attempt to prop up financing for fossil fuel through its "fair access" rule for banks, amid a rising tide of lenders announcing plans to phase-out such funding.