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  • Global accounting standard for 'financed emissions' open for consultation

    19 August 2020

    A Global Carbon Accounting Standard to help international financial institutions consistently measure and disclose the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions financed by their loans and investments is now available for public consultation.

  • Apex launches private company ESG ratings service for investors

    17 August 2020

    Financial services firm Apex has launched a platform offering an environmental, social and governance (ESG) rating and scoring service for private companies, allowing investors to generate sustainability insights for their entire portfolio.

  • BankTrack: Banks are failing to follow Equator Principles

    11 August 2020

    Signatory banks to the Equator Principles may be failing to uphold its standards such as grievance mechanisms in current projects being financed, according to a report by NGO BankTrack.

  • Climate change to prolong wildfire seasons by months - Four Twenty Seven

    07 August 2020

    Four Twenty Seven has created a dataset projecting changes to the likelihood of wildfires in a world affected by climate change.

  • Public investment institutions commit to ESG, despite lack of reliable data

    03 August 2020

    More than 90% of global public investors (GPIs), such as central banks, sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds, have specific environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment policies in place, or are in the process of developing them despite limited access to ESG data.

  • ESG fund assets pass $1trn milestone

    31 July 2020

    Assets in sustainable funds have rebounded sharply following the market meltdown triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, to hit a record high of $1.06 trillion, as of the end of June.

  • Short selling can be effective ESG impact tool, says AIMA

    29 July 2020

    Short selling can be an "effective tool" to mitigate carbon risks and can incentivise companies to improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, but data providers and regulators must also play their part, said a leading trade association.

  • Satellite and AI initiative to 'transform carbon data'

    23 July 2020

    An initiative has been launched to combine data from satellites and artificial intelligence (AI), promising to "revolutionise global efforts to measure and reduce emissions across every sector of society".

  • Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures working group announced

    21 July 2020

    Ten financial firms have joined a working group to develop a reporting framework for the impact of the financial sector on biodiversity and ecosystems to complement the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

  • Environmental Finance's webinar - Renewable energy: mapping out the next investment push

    21 July 2020

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