- EU sustainability omnibus regulation 'like opening Pandora's box'
- Comment: Investors need to target sovereigns in 2025
- A $1trn market again - sustainable bonds saw issuance grow in 2024
- Nature risk is business risk: Why financial reporting needs a mindset shift
- Gresham House preparing 'all-singing-and-dancing' agriculture strategy
- Standard Chartered, Apollo launch $3bn energy transition infrastructure credit partnership
- German public banks baulk at scope of biodiversity, transition plans in EU rules
- Sustainable debt round-up: Bpifrance, Hungary, Telefonica ... and more
- NZAM halts activities in 'fit for purpose' review following BlackRock exit
- More 'honesty' needed about biodiversity funds, says AXA IM
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Omnibus opportunity to broaden EU taxonomy use via 'simplification', LSEG suggests
16 January 2025Plans by the EU to reduce sustainability reporting requirements are an opportunity to simplify the bloc's taxonomy so it can be more widely used by large institutional investors such as pension funds, according to the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG).
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IFC raises $2bn from largest social bond
16 January 2025The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has issued its largest ever social bond, with the $2 billion deal also attracting the largest ever orderbook for the instrument from the development finance institution.
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FSB developing climate early warning system as it warns of risks to financial stability
16 January 2025A draft framework for regulators that can "provide [an] early signal on potential drivers of transition and physical risks that can impact the financial system ... [and] quantify the scale of financial impacts" has been published by the Financial Stability Board (FSB).
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China plans debut sovereign green bond in 2025
16 January 2025China is planning to issue its inaugural sovereign green bond in 2025 which would leave only a handful of G20 countries yet to issue a sustainable bond.
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Positive screening 'increasingly crucial' for investors, says CISL
16 January 2025Positive screening is "increasingly crucial" for managing climate risk, limiting losses and delivering returns, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has said in a new report.