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AXA UK fund to drop 'sustainable' from its name in response to FCA's SDR
04 October 2024AXA Investment Managers UK plans to change the name of its Global Sustainable Distribution fund and the investment policy, in response to the incoming UK Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR).
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Call for 'green interest rate' to accelerate European transition
02 October 2024The European Central Bank (ECB) should introduce a 'green interest rate' to help advance Europe's green transition, a paper has argued.
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Jupiter Ecology to adopt FCA Sustainability Focus label
02 October 2024Jupiter Asset Management will adopt the 'Sustainability Focus' label for its £702 million ($933 million) Jupiter Ecology Fund overseen by Jon Wallace and Noelle Guo.
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Emirates NBD launches SLLB framework ahead of potential issuance
30 September 2024Emirates NBD has published its first Sustainability-Linked Loan Financing Bond Framework for the financing of sustainability-linked loan bonds (SLLBs), ahead of a potential issuance.
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NZAOA calls for systemic policy interventions to keep 1.5°C alive
27 September 2024The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owners Alliance (NZAOA) has urged governments to commit to, and implement, "systemic" policy reforms that limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
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ALTÉRRA commits $350m to BlackRock emerging markets transition strategy
26 September 2024ALTÉRRA has announced its second big deal of New York Climate Week, after committing $350 million to BlackRock's emerging markets transition infrastructure strategy.
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CBI launches resiliency taxonomy
26 September 2024The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has launched a taxonomy clarifying what constitutes a credible investment in climate resilience.
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IIGCC highlights opportunities in unlabelled debt
24 September 2024Unlabelled debt could play a greater role in decarbonising high-emitting and hard-to-abate sectors than labelled debt and green bonds, a discussion paper by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) suggested.
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Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings 2024 announced
23 September 2024Environmental Finance received more than 7,000 votes across 23 separate categories for this year's Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings rankings, as readers nominated leading companies and initiatives in the sector that exhibit best practice or innovation.
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ING further restricts upstream oil & gas financing
20 September 2024ING has further tightened its restrictions on financing the oil and gas sector, although one NGO branded the development as being "of little value".
- EF's Biodiversity Insight 2024
- TNFD to launch nature transition plan guidance discussion paper at COP16
- Banco Bolivariano starting to adopt TNFD
- Article 6.4: Is operation underway?
- "No interest" in biodiversity from US investors, Morningstar finds
- T Rowe Price, TPG Rise back $405m funding for US energy storage business
- Thames Water woes could drag UK green bond market down
- When will GSAM, Jupiter and Gresham House sign up to the TNFD?
- CSRD 'gamechanger' for preparing companies for IPO, says Euronext
- Fidelity launches 'first' global 'blue bond' fund
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Conference round-up: Sustainability Data EMEA 2024
17 October 2024Now in its fifth year, Environmental Finance's Sustainability Data EMEA 2024 in London continues to shine a light on the rapidly expanding and evolving field of ESG data. Peter Cripps reports
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Trust in forward-looking data 'needs to be earned'
17 October 2024As corporates are encouraged to provide more forward-looking data by investors and regulators, trust in how such data is produced will have to be earned, attendees at an Environmental Finance conference heard.
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Nestlé: We need to set 'reasonable boundaries' on transparency of nature data
17 October 2024"Reasonable boundaries" need to be set on the amount of nature data companies are expected to disclose, Nestlé has said, urging investors to collectively decide what information they need.
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Limited liability under consideration in forward-looking data consultation, says FCA
17 October 2024Forward-looking sustainability data could encourage investors to assess risks more accurately, the Financial Conduct Authority's Sacha Sadan told an Environmental Finance conference, but raises the issue of liability.
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ESG Data: 'Dream of common language will not be met without common translation'
17 October 2024The dream of a "common language" on environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting can only be achieved in practice if we accept the need for a "traveller's translation guide" for global investors as well, an Environmental Finance event has heard.