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Should sustainable bond underwriters stop financing fossil fuels?

Is it time for banks to end support of fossil fuel bonds in order to secure lead manager mandates for sustainable bond transactions?

2Dii: Should ESG ratings be abolished?

Climate finance think tank 2° Investing Initiative (2Dii) has launched a short survey around environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings...

'Disturbing' climate absence in shareholder proposals

Only 2% of shareholder proposals in 2021 related to the environment, with the vast majority based on governance, according to analysis by non-profit Planet Tracker.

Mandate private market disclosures, says LSEG

Policymakers globally should introduce mandatory sustainability disclosure regimes that cover private markets as much as public markets, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has urged.

UK transition plan taskforce consults on framework

iCI & ERM launch 'first' private equity climate disclosure standard

ISS ESG launches regulatory alignment tool

CFOs 'surprisingly committed' to hiking sustainable bond issuance, says PwC

Private sector chief financial officers (CFOs) are "surprisingly committed" to increasing their issuance of green, social and sustainability (GSS) bonds...

CDP: Time to debunk the myth that water is immaterial to financials

A third of financials still fail to assess water risk, Cate Lamb tells Genevieve Redgrave

We must go 'back to basics' on carbon emissions data

The problems with carbon emission disclosure and estimation data remain significant. Only mandatory reporting can solve the issue, Jaakko Kooroshy tells Ahren Lester.