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'Don't divest from palm oil', WWF urges financial institutions
09 April 2019Environmental NGO WWF has urged financial institutions not to divest from palm oil stocks, but to engage with companies to make the sector more sustainable.
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Bank of America makes additional $300bn pledge to finance low-carbon business
05 April 2019Bank of America has committed to mobilise an additional $300 billion in capital by 2030 through its Environmental Business Initiative.
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Green bond round-up: ICO, Klabin, Reykjavik Energy, Midsummer, IBRD, Fabege, Housing New Zealand, Argosy Property and Vasakronan
03 April 2019Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), a state-owned Spanish bank, has issued a €500 million ($562 million) green note that matures in 2024.
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Mirova launches gender equality investment fund
03 April 2019French asset manager Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has launched a thematic equity fund focusing on companies committed to promoting gender equality and female representation in 'top-level' management.
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Shell to leave American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers following review of lobbying
03 April 2019Oil & gas giant Shell has published its first report on its lobbying practices, as a result of investor pressure, and has agreed to leave the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM).
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Nippon Life adopts the Equator Principles
02 April 2019Nippon Life Insurance said it has adopted and started implementing the Equator Principles, a risk management framework to help financial institutions assess and manage environmental and social risk in development projects.
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NNIP launches short-duration green bond fund
01 April 2019NN Investment Partners (NNIP) has launched a short-duration green bond fund.
- COP29: €3bn public-private fundraise planned for emerging market green bond fund
- Fight or flight: Contract and financing considerations for UK SAF projects
- EU proposal to bring sustainable finance rules into single regulation risks 'chaos'
- COP29 could be remembered as the 'blended finance COP', AllianceBernstein says
- Bahamas signs 'ground-breaking' $300m debt-for-nature loan deal
- UK pledges £239m to tackle deforestation
- Indonesia brings forward coal phase out
- COP29: Financing Net Zero
- Scaling Biodiversity Credits
- Debt-for-nature deals are 'growing very rapidly and are very scalable'
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SLBs linked to donations or carbon credit investments are 'promising'
25 November 2024Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) which use the financial penalties for missing targets to make donations or purchase carbon credits should be looked at more closely by the market,...
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ADB launches nature investment plan
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Strengthening Canada's markets: Why CSA must act on climate disclosure now
25 November 2024Investments in Canadian businesses is at risk because of delays by the Canadian Securities Administrators in requiring the disclosure of essential climate-related data, write Sonia Li Trottier and Catherine McCall
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Back work to 'simplify' EU sustainable finance rules, advisers tell German government
25 November 2024 -
Fidelity International preps first TNFD report
25 November 2024Fidelity International is preparing to report in line with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) next year, but difficulties remain on metrics and targets.