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Impact investors say AUM soared 86% over four years
21 June 2019Impact investors have seen their assets under management increase by 86% over the past four years, a survey of the market suggests.
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Exxon and other laggards excluded from LGIM Future World Funds
21 June 2019Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has excluded more climate change laggards from its Future World Funds range after they failed to respond to its engagement programme.
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People Moves: Nature Conservancy, UBS, Premier Asset Management, AP6, LuxFLAG
21 June 2019NGO the Nature Conservancy has announced board directors and leadership members.
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Central banks 'to turn to green QE'
21 June 2019Central banks could turn to "green quantitative easing" (QE) as part of their increasingly active response to climate change, a panellist at Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income 2019 conference argued.
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EU's non-binding guidelines adopt TCFD framework
19 June 2019New EU guidelines on corporate climate-related reporting have integrated the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), and signal a growing alignment for the disclosure regime globally.
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Proposed green bond standard to 'safeguard' market growth
18 June 2019The proposed EU green bond standard (EU GBS), released today, will 'safeguard' the growth of the green bond market by creating common and safe ground for issuance, delegates at Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income 2019 conference were told.
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Spatial data's potential to spot environmental risk in sovereign bonds
14 June 2019Data generated by satellite imagery can help sovereign bond investors better assess environmental risks that could weaken a country's economy, a report said.
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€40bn planned climate endowment to invest in 'green industrial revolution'
10 June 2019A planned "climate endowment" fund hopes to raise between €20 billion ($22.6 billion) and €40 billion to enable institutional investors to invest in "the champions of the green industrial revolution".
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People Moves: LuxFLAG, Aviva, LGIM, Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative, NAB, Allianz SE and ING
07 June 2019The Luxembourg Finance Labelling Agency (LuxFLAG) has appointed Sachin Vankalas as general manager.
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Regulation to continue to drive energy efficiency opportunity, HSBC says
07 June 2019Tightening buildings regulations will continue to drive the energy efficiency investment opportunity in the buildings’ sector, with insulation products set to be in particular demand, HSBC has forecasted.
- CBI optimistic of 'really quick uptake' for climate resilience taxonomy
- MSCI developing transition plan assessment product
- Abris rolls-out ESG methodology to 'squeeze out' higher valuations
- 'Water will be one of the biggest investment themes over the next decade'
- Robeco launches its first 'high income green bond strategy'
- CBI to launch climate resilience taxonomy this month
- Putting transition plans to the test: MSCI
- Inadequate credit market could worsen biodiversity loss, warns Grantham Institute
- Allianz GI's impact credit strategy raises €560m at first close
- Mirova closes first impact PE strategy at €211m
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Australia publishes net zero 'sector pathways'
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$1.4trn investors call for greater nature disclosures
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Pension members should be given right to voice ESG preferences, says Dutch regulator
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Carbon removals versus reductions misses the point
06 September 2024For the atmosphere's balance sheet, emission reductions and removals are both vitally important, argues Mary Grady
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EXCLUSIVE: M&G to rebrand climate solutions fund as biodiversity
06 September 2024M&G Investments is rebranding its climate solutions fund as a nature and biodiversity fund, as it looks to capitalise on growing interest in the theme, Environmental Finance has learned.