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Exclusive: Sustainalytics to launch transition ratings
09 June 2022Sustainalytics is to launch climate transition ratings for companies by the end of the year, Environmental Finance has learned.
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Macron and Bloomberg launch climate data transparency drive
06 June 2022An initiative has been launched to boost transparency on climate data, and allow companies to be "held accountable" for their net zero commitments.
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Impact investor receives prestigious honour
02 June 2022An impact investor is to receive an award from the UK's royal family, with the announcement made to coincide with a national celebration of 70 years of the Queen's reign.
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Dolma Nepalese hydro firm receives IPO approval
27 May 2022A hydropower developer in Nepal, partly owned by a Dolma impact fund, has received approval from the regulator to list on the country's stock exchange.
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Green Century's Samuelrich awaits McDonald's board vote
25 May 2022A sustainable investment specialist will tomorrow learn whether she has won her bid for election to the board of McDonald's, a role for which she was nominated to tackle an animal welfare issue at the fast food giant.
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HSBC rejects comments by its head of RI about climate
23 May 2022HSBC has distanced itself from the remarks of a senior employee who delivered a controversial speech about 'Why investors need not worry about climate risk'.
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Carney: Some fossil fuel investment justified
11 May 2022The transition to a net-zero carbon economy requires "nothing short of a revolution", although some limited investment in fossil fuels is justified in the short term, Mark Carney has said.
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Webinar to explore green financial growth in Mexico
04 May 2022The growth prospects of the green bond market in Mexico will be the focus of a webinar presented by the IFC in collaboration with Environmental Finance.
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EFRAG's proposed sustainability standards welcomed
03 May 2022The release of draft European corporate sustainability reporting standards has been hailed as a "much needed strengthening of EU disclosure rules".
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New York State Retirement Fund supports proposal to stop underwriting fossil fuels
27 April 2022The New York State comptroller has pledged to support of shareholder proposals that ask three insurance companies to stop underwriting new fossil fuel supplies.
- La Banque Postale invests in ESG data startup
- COP29: Financing Net Zero
- France launches voluntary biodiversity credit market
- BNP Paribas targets $500m for developed markets forestry fund
- Artesian: Two-way coupons could 'reignite' SLB market
- Finance Earth plans for life after Federated Hermes following withdrawal from collaborations
- Converting Bridgerton to Bog Hall
- EU countries failing to transpose CSRD risk increasing costs of compliance, observers say
- EU countries reject move to weaken Deforestation Regulation
- Fight or flight: Contract and financing considerations for UK SAF projects
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Bahamas signs 'ground-breaking' $300m debt-for-nature loan deal
22 November 2024The Bahamas has signed a $300 million loan with Standard Chartered as part of a ground-breaking marine conservation-focused debt conversion transaction developed with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
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Debt-for-nature deals are 'growing very rapidly and are very scalable'
22 November 2024The nature financing gap remains concerningly wide, but the increasingly active debt-for-nature market offers hope that the tide is turning. Ahren Lester reports
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Scaling Biodiversity Credits
21 November 2024The International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity credits launched at COP16 a framework consisting of 21 High-Level Principles to ensure the high-integrity of the biodiversity credit market. Ingrid Kukuljan explains what they hope to achieve
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Account for nature on balance sheets, says Sustainable Markets Initiative
21 November 2024The public and private sectors have been encouraged to account for nature as an asset by the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) to deliver more accurate balance sheet information.
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UN Principles for Responsible Banking cuts reporting requirements
21 November 2024