News

• Talanx powers down its thermal coal underwriting exposure

  02 May 2023

  Talanx has reduced its thermal coal infrastructure risks by 17.7% as of year-end 2022 compared with a 2019 baseline.

• EU's SFDR 'has had fundamental impact in US'

  02 May 2023

  The EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) has "fundamentally" impacted asset managers in the US, a conference heard.

• MAS's Menon warns of 'significant macroeconomic implications' of biodiversity loss

  02 May 2023

  The Monetary Authority of Singapore's managing director Ravi Menon has urged financial institutions to proactively manage the risk of biodiversity loss, warning it could have "significant macroeconomic implications".

• Sustainability-linked bond data transparency 'getting better'

  02 May 2023

  The data transparency for sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) is "definitely getting better" as market providers increase granularity of their datasets,...

• Pollination pitches tax to scale biodiversity credit market

  02 May 2023

  Governments could impose a tax on corporates that are harming nature, as a way of fostering biodiversity credit markets, Pollination has said.

• Western Australia plans sustainable bond debut by June

  02 May 2023

  Western Australian Treasury Corporation (WATC) is planning to issue its inaugural sustainable bond by the end of June, the borrowing authority for the Australian state said as it published its framework.

• Australian regulator fines superfund for greenwashing

  02 May 2023

  The Australian regulator has fined the marketing arm of superannuation fund Future Super for alleged greenwashing.

• Sustainability standards convergence raises 'green bubble' risk, says SEC's Peirce

  02 May 2023

  Introducing substantially identical sustainability standards internationally could create "a global asset bubble" that would heighten financial stability risks, a commissioner at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned.

• There is already ample natural capital data, says TNFD

  02 May 2023

  There is already enough data on natural capital for investors to meaningfully engage on the subject, a spokesperson for the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures claimed.

  

• Growing momentum in investment to tackle plastic pollution, says Circulate Initiative

  28 April 2023

  While there is growing momentum to tackle plastic pollution, investment in solutions is still far below what is currently needed to meet the scale of the challenge, the Circular Initiative has told Environmental Finance.