Peter Cripps

Articles by Peter Cripps

  • The Future of ESG Data conference: ESMA to open consultation on ESAP database 'shortly'

    17 October 2023

    The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will "shortly" launch a consultation on key aspects of a free-to-use database that will house sustainability data across the EU.

  • Q&A with Patrick de Cambourg

    13 October 2023

    The Chair of the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Board argues that reporting in line with the CSRD has effectively reported in line with the ISSB

  • ESG in Fixed Income Americas 2023: Investors call for green bond market improvements

    02 October 2023

    Investors recommended structural improvements for some of the deals in the labelled bond market, hoping it may lead to improved quality of transactions.

  • Insurance Risk & Capital Americas 2023: Climate change already making some perils 'uninsurable'

    27 September 2023

    Climate change has been named as one of the biggest headwinds facing the insurance industry by a panel of risk experts, with its effects already making some perils uninsurable.

  • Natural Capital Investment Americas 2023: TNFD 'will need filtering before integration into ISSB'

    26 September 2023

    The recently released recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) will need to be "filtered" before being integrated into the standards created by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), one of the IFRS Foundation's directors has suggested.

  • World Federation of Exchanges publishes guidance on green equities

    14 September 2023

    The World Federation of Exchanges has issued guidance on how to apply the Green Equity Principles it issued in March, arguing that the asset class could "play an important role in helping to create a more sustainable world".

  • Green steel plant raises €1.5bn in largest private placement in Europe this year

    08 September 2023

    Investors including Just Climate, Singapore's Temasek and Sweden's AP2 have contributed to a €1.5 billion equity round to build the world's first green steel plant.

  • ESG Book helps pilot ASEAN ESG database

    31 August 2023

    The Sustainable Finance Institute Asia (SFIA) has named ESG Book as a data partner for a planned database of ESG data for the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) region.

  • SBTi's financial sector framework will enhance its credibility, says IEEFA

    25 August 2023

    The Science Based Targets initiative's (SBTi) proposed standards for financial institutions will help boost the initiative's credibility, says the Institute for Energy, Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) - although there is still room for improvement.

  • Can COP28 turn the tide?

    22 August 2023

    With 100 days until COP28 in Dubai, can the summit reassure investors that the slide into climate catastrophe can be stopped, asks Peter Cripps