Madeleine Jenkins

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.

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.

Insight has classification system for SLBs

Insight Investment classifies sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) as either dark green, light green or red, using its own criteria.

Banks flag 'black-swan events' as top climate risk

Vanguard launches 'impact' stock fund

SDG engagement fund breaks through $2bn barrier

Federated Hermes' argument that engagement provides greatest impact has gained traction with investors, writes Madeleine Jenkins

£3.6trn financiers join 'just transition challenge'

UK Treasury Secretary backs green savings bonds

The Economic Secretary to the UK Treasury promised to improve impact reporting requirements and backed green savings bonds in his first outing as secretary.

Actis sells Lekela Power

Berenberg targets positive impact but refrains from impact label

Berenberg Bank says it does not define itself as an impact investor despite running three 'impact-focussed' funds - a distinction it says helps avoid perceptions of greenwashing while definitions of impact are in flux, according to a senior employee.