News round-up - 12 February 2021: Nordea, UK ETS, ESG-focused SPAC launch, HSBC ... and more

Chinese stock exchanges publish sustainability disclosure guidelines

Can COP29 deliver on the key issue of finance?

COP29, due to begin on Monday has been dubbed 'the finance COP', and will be judged largely on whether it succeeds in stimulating a step change in financial flows to both climate mitigation and adaptation.

Latest Environmental Finance COP Insight published

Environmental Finance has published a COP-focused special report in the build up to COP29 taking place in Baku next week.

Webinar: Investors need to 'get ahead' of land economy transition risks

The land economy sector faces key transition risks, climate research and advisory organisation Orbitas has told an Environmental Finance webinar, but investors can "get ahead" by identifying financing gaps and exposure to potential opportunities.

Ducking public Scope 3 targets in SLBs 'tarnished' market

Although Scope 3 emissions targets are "tough," a sustainable bond investor said cases of sustainability-linked bond (SLB) issuers with public targets related to material Scope 3 emissions "tarnished" the market by not including them in their bond deal.