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Sustainability-linked debt: the risk of ESG-washing
21 June 2021Sustainability-linked loans and bonds may have different sustainability performance targets and pricing mechanisms from one another, but innovative new pricing structures may increase the risk of 'ESG-washing' across the whole asset class, Lori Shapiro writes
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Climate Investment Funds and Green Climate Fund - where do they go from here?
18 June 2021While the GCF was intended to make the CIFs obsolete, the CIFs still have a key role to play, at least for the time being, argues Alexandra Tracy
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Sustainable underwriting is more arduous than sustainable investment
17 June 2021Axa, Zurich and Aviva discussed their journeys to carbon neutrality at the IDF Summit this week, and how they will meet their commitments to net-zero underwriting. Cintia Cheong reports
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Adjusting social infrastructure to the new reality
15 June 2021One of the biggest opportunities for impact investors, and one of the biggest needs within societies globally, is in social infrastructure, says John Levy
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Mapping the depletion of natural capital
11 June 2021Maps to showcase hotspots of relative natural capital depletion are a starting point for investors to understand its impact on portfolios, write Gemma James and Sylvaine Rols
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Japanese seafood: sustainable strategies are needed to safeguard the financial health of the industry
10 June 2021François Mosnier explores how the improved sustainability of Japanese seafood companies could drive improved operational and financial performance, as well as safeguarding the future of the industry
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Green Bond Principles tightens 'key' recommendations to reflect market best practice
10 June 2021Three years after the last update, the widely adopted Green Bond Principles has received a raft of updates to bring it in line with the developing best practice in the global sustainable bond market. Ahren Lester reports
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When sustainability falls victim to its own success
09 June 2021Huge inflows into clean energy ETFs recently caused ructions in equity markets. What are the lessons for investors and companies, asks Patrick Wood Uribe
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Q&A with David Craig, co-chair of the TNFD
07 June 2021The goal of the TNFD is to ensure that nature-related costs and risks are factored into financial flows, and that money is redirected to be nature positive, Craig tells Michael Hurley
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Nature goes mainstream - Welcome the TNFD
04 June 2021Today's launch of the TNFD is an important step towards ensuring financial flows are redirected to make a positive contribution to nature, writes Simon Zadek
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