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  • 'Legislate against' deforestation financed by Vanguard, BlackRock

    26 January 2021

    Sanctions should be introduced for financial institutions like Vanguard, State Street and BlackRock, which collectively provide $2.7 trillion in financing to companies driving tropical deforestation and have no policy to curb the practice, according to a report by Global Canopy.

  • How to scale the carbon offset market

    22 January 2021

    The Taskforce on scaling voluntary carbon markets will next week publish its final recommendations. Annabelle Palmer spoke with market participants to hear their thoughts on the proposals outlined so far

  • Investor alliance targets $10bn natural capital investment

    11 January 2021

    An 'alliance' of institutional investors HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management, Lombard Odier and Mirova aims to invest $10 billion in natural capital by next year.

  • Global banks supply $800m a day to plastics supply chain

    07 January 2021

    The amount of money that banks have pumped into the global plastics supply chain has been tracked in a new report

  • NGFS to turn its gaze to biodiversity loss

    22 December 2020

  • Third of UK 'low carbon' funds contain oil and gas holdings

    21 December 2020

    An investigation by think tank Common Wealth into UK funds with climate or low carbon themes has found over a third hold oil and gas producing companies.

  • Planet Tracker identifies deforestation risk behind ETFs

    18 December 2020

    Exchange traded funds (ETFs) from asset managers including BlackRock (iShares), Vanguard and State Street hide entrenched deforestation risk from investors, according to sustainability think tank Planet Tracker.

  • Water disruption: investment risk from multiple angles

    16 December 2020

    Water risk must be accounted for in investment portfolios today, not in 2030 or 2050, argues Julie Moret

  • Leading through volatility

    Randy Lack, founder and co-president of Element Markets talks to Environmental Finance about how his firm has navigated the disruption carbon and renewable fuels markets experienced in 2020

  • Connecting green energy markets

    Jens Schumacher, managing partner of STX Group talks to Environmental Finance about how STX is working with its clients as the renewable energy revolution picks up pace on a global scale.