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Chinese investors 'dubious' about Hong Kong green bond issuance
24 January 2023Chinese investors are "dubious" about offshore green bond issuances in Hong Kong because of the lack of green bond rules in place in the financial centre , Sustainable Fitch has told Environmental Finance.
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Investment in sustainable fashion needs to be ramped up, investor says
24 January 2023Investment in sustainable supply chains for the fabrics used in fashion is "missing", an executive at family office Vedra Partners claimed.
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Agri-forestry investment yields endangered by physical climate risks, data gaps
24 January 2023Folium Capital, a $900 million investor in the agriculture and forestry sector, is preparing for volatile annual returns over the next ten years, brought on by climate-induced forest fires, droughts, and pricier crop insurance.
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Eurozone investors 'net buyers' of labelled debt, ECB says
24 January 2023Investors in the eurozone of 20 EU states are "net buyers" of debt labelled by issuers as green, social, sustainability or sustainability-linked, according to analysis by the ECB.
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ECB seeks to narrow 'climate data gap' with statistics on debt, physical risks
24 January 2023A first set of statistics on the sustainability bond market, carbon emissions and physical risks posed by climate change has been published by the European Central Bank (ECB).
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Indian financial sector 'not prepared' for the transition
23 January 2023Major exposure to high-emitting sectors and insufficient risk-management policies means the Indian financial sector is 'not prepared' for the energy transition, according to research.
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Climate action a 'race not a competition', says impact investor
23 January 2023Investors and policymakers need to start viewing climate action as a 'race' to be among the first and biggest beneficiaries of the energy transition, rather than treating the shift as a direct winner-takes-all competition, impact investor Palladium has said.
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SMEs attractive for impact investors amid rising inflation, says Regnan
23 January 2023Fast-growing small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have become "really attractive" for impact investors seeking resilience to rising inflation, according to Regnan.
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JBS hits back at complaint to SEC about sustainability-linked bond
23 January 2023Brazilian meat processor JBS has hit back at a complaint filed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) calling on the regulator to investigate its "misleading" sustainability-linked bond (SLB) issuances.
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EU regulation will reward companies with positive forestry credentials, says investor
23 January 2023Deforestation will be a defining issue this year for investors, driven by forthcoming EU regulation, impact investor Karner Blue Capital has said.
- Iceberg launches sovereign climate and biodiversity dataset
- COP29: 'Historic step' for carbon markets, as Article 6 crosses finish line
- SLBs linked to donations or carbon credit investments are 'promising'
- SEC likely to withdraw climate rules, former Commissioner predicts
- IDB Invest and IFC back BBVA Colombia for $100m sustainable bond issuance
- EU proposal to bring sustainable finance rules into single regulation risks 'chaos'
- The 'finance COP' short-changed the Global South, say investors
- Debt-for-nature deals are 'growing very rapidly and are very scalable'
- EU sustainability 'omnibus' regulations 'like a bad omelette'
- COP29: Financing Net Zero