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Encouraging transition should be core to ISSB standards, Amundi says
31 January 2023Standard-setters such as the International Standards Board (ISSB) should place greater emphasis on ensuring corporate disclosure of transition plans is detailed enough to help institutional investors, according to Europe's largest asset manager.
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US politics 'hampering' SEC climate disclosure rule objective
30 January 2023A former senior US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official said the political debate around its climate-related financial disclosure rule proposals has "lost sight" of its objective, and is making finalising the "right" rule difficult.
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14% of sustainable bond issuers have set science-based targets
30 January 2023Over 1,400 sustainable bonds raising more than $600 billion have been issued by organisations that have either set or committed to set climate targets verified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)...
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UK accounting watchdog to check actuaries' ESG reporting
30 January 2023The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) will carry out spot checks on actuaries reporting on climate-related risks and environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in their work.
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EIOPA welcomes growing 'convergence' of ISSB and EU standards
27 January 2023EIOPA has welcomed what it called a convergence of the definition of financial materiality in EU and international sustainability standards.
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Issuer profile: Greenyard
26 January 2023The fruit and vegetable supplier defends its 'sleeping SLL', arguing that setting KPIs post-issuance helped 'prevent a rush to unambitious targets'. Ahren Lester reports
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WWF reveals sectors with highest biodiversity risk
25 January 2023The food industry has the worst biodiversity impacts and dependencies, analysis by WWF has suggested.
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'Greenhushing' in 2023 could be 'as harmful as greenwashing'
25 January 2023'Greenhushing' will become a growing problem in 2023, Apex has warned, after rising pressure from investors and regulators on 'greenwashing' in 2022
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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).