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Video: Alessia Falsarone on the importance of bondholder engagement
08 November 2022Alessia Falsarone, head of sustainable investing portfolio strategy at Pineridge Investments, shares her view on the importance of bondholder engagement.
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Investors urged to vote against Sembcorp coal plant deal
07 November 2022The financial engineering behind Sembcorp's proposed sale of two coal-fired plants means the transaction is a "quick and dirty solution" to decarbonisation, and highlights the weaknesses of some sustainability-linked bond (SLB) structures, a think-tank has argued.
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AI data providers 'not there yet' for sustainable bond data solutions
07 November 2022The technology behind artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) is not currently capable of providing investors with the tools they need to "meaningfully and quickly" extract data...
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COP27: New investors join deforestation alliance
07 November 2022Institutions including asset manager GAM Investments have joined Finance Sector Deforestation Action (FSDA) initiative as COP27 kicks off in Egypt.
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COP27 needs to deliver on transition finance, says UOB
07 November 2022COP27 needs to 'lean into' the concept of transition finance to help deliver net zero, especially in developing markets, UOB has told Environmental Finance.
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SGX developing sustainable bond listing initiative
07 November 2022The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has exclusively announced at an Environmental Finance event that it plans to launch a sustainable bond initiative to provide "added assurance" for investors around reporting and greater visibility for issuers.
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Look past ESG scores to hedge climate risks, Fed study says
07 November 2022A sample investment portfolio of stocks with low carbon intensity proved a better hedge against an unexpected climate shock than one constituted of firms with a relatively good environmental score, according to a study by the US Federal Reserve.
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Verra plans biodiversity credit standard in late 2023
07 November 2022Verra plans to release a standard to enable the independent certification of biodiversity credits in late 2023, an executive at the standard-setter has said.
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ESG will increasingly influence insurers' risk management strategies
07 November 2022Lack of standardisation, regulatory pressure and greater physical risks all pose challenges, says Fitch
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TNFD publishes pilot nature scenario 'narratives'
04 November 2022The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has published nature scenarios it said market participants can begin using to plot progress along four potential futures.
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- SEC likely to withdraw climate rules, former Commissioner predicts
- After COP29, can voluntary carbon markets scale again?
- EU proposal to bring sustainable finance rules into single regulation risks 'chaos'
- Debt-for-nature deals are 'growing very rapidly and are very scalable'
- The 'finance COP' short-changed the Global South, say investors
- EU sustainability 'omnibus' regulations 'like a bad omelette'