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  • Global Canopy to assess companies on deforestation action

    27 June 2024

    Global Canopy has announced plans to assess companies on their level of progress towards eliminating progress, in a bid to improve investor engagement.

  • Belgian regulator hopes SFDR review leads to labelling scheme

    26 June 2024

    A senior figure at Belgium's financial regulator said she hopes the EU's fund disclosure rules are reimagined as a labelling scheme.

  • LGIM to partially divest from Glencore over coal plans

    26 June 2024

    Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has said it will divest from Glencore over the mining company's plans to expand its production of thermal coal.

  • ICMA Principles to publish whitepaper on SLB 'best practices'

    26 June 2024

    The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) working group on sustainability-linked bonds will publish a paper on the "best practices" in the market after ascertaining a "clearer idea" of how to improve the instrument.

  • ICMA working on detailed 'green enabling' project checklist after guidance

    26 June 2024

    The International Capital Market Association (ICMA)-administered Principles is working on a "detailed checklist" to help issuers and investors use its newly released 'green enabling' project guidance.

  • Disclosure frameworks are hyped up, says JP Morgan in speech disrupted by climate protester

    25 June 2024

    Policy makers need to "get real" about enabling the transition, instead of being "overly obsessed with disclosures", warned JP Morgan, in a panel discussion which was interrupted by a shouting climate protester.

  • Nature and impact data firm has 'concerns' about data estimation issues

    25 June 2024

    Global nature and impact data provider GIST Impact has said it "shares concerns" about the accuracy of data estimates and machine learning models, calling for more standards to deliver legitimacy and more innovation.

  • Net Zero Investment Framework reduces focus on financed emissions, warning of 'perverse outcomes'

    25 June 2024

    The second version of the widely used Net Zero Investment Framework investor transition planning guide has been published, with a reduced focus on encouraging the reduction of emissions linked to financing.

  • ICMA, LMA release 'sustainability-linked loan bond' guidance

    25 June 2024

    Two debt industry bodies have jointly published guidance for the issuance of bonds dedicated to financing sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) in order to develop a new sustainable finance product and support the credibility of the performance-based lending instrument.

  • Disclosure data checklist among ICMA SLB Principles updates

    25 June 2024

    The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has published an updated version of the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles (SLBP) which includes a new disclosure data checklist intended to "harmonise" and strengthen disclosures for the performance-based instrument.