News

  • ASN invests €2m in Clarmondial sustainable food fund

    27 April 2022

    Dutch firm ASN Impact Investors has invested €2 million ($2.1 million) in Clarmondial's fund focused on sustainable agriculture.

  • "We are creating a bad climate premium," warns FRR director

    27 April 2022

    Bad assets are going to bad asset owners, says executive at €1.8trn fund

  • Climate policy since COP26 'confirming 1.8֯ C trajectory'

    27 April 2022

    Climate policy developments since November's UN climate conference "reflect slight positives in global climate ambition," according to an analysis.

  • Moody's unveils ESG portfolio screening kit

    27 April 2022

    Moody's has launched a data platform that provides access to Moody's physical and transition climate risk data sets across a recently expanded universe of 10,000 companies globally.

  • Biodiversity regulation 'where climate regulation was 8 years ago'

    27 April 2022

    Regulation of investor impacts and dependencies on nature is today where it was about eight years ago for climate change, according to a member of a high-profile study group.

  • Banque de France first central bank to join CDP

    27 April 2022

    Banque de France has become the first central bank to join the CDP, which requests environmental disclosures by companies.

  • European Investment Bank invests $20m in ocean fund

    26 April 2022

    The European Investment Bank has committed $20 million to Circulate Capital's Ocean Fund I-B

  • Carbon markets need governance reform, says Finance for Biodiversity

    26 April 2022

    Finance for Biodiversity (F4B) has designed a governance model for carbon markets with "systemic oversight", which it says would also encourage the growth of 'nature markets'.

  • Greenwashing claims could 'undermine' responsible investment

    26 April 2022

    Inconclusive studies that claim ESG funds are 'greenwashing' could undermine the responsible investment movement, lawyers have warned.

  • NY Fed: Climate risk 'unconditionally reflected' in credit ratings, spreads

    26 April 2022

    Climate risk related to regulation and environmental performance is "unconditionally reflected" in the credit ratings and pricing among US corporates, according to research by the New York Federal Reserve.