Archive

  • London calling IFRS: Forget Canada, base ISSB in UK!

    02 September 2021

    A group of UK finance organisations has urged the IFRS Foundation to locate its new International Sustainability Standards Board

  • Green and sustainability-linked loan round-up: CIP, Siemens Gamesa and more

    08 July 2020

  • Green bonds round-up: Wallonia; Adif; Nedbank; SFE; Crédit Agricole; Green OAT

    01 May 2019

    Wallonia, the French speaking region of southern Belgium, has entered the green bond market with a dual-tranche issue that raised €1 billion ($1.2 billion).

  • HSBC tightens policy on palm oil financing

    21 February 2017

    HSBC has pledged to tighten its policy on financing palm oil companies, to help improve the sustainability of the industry.

  • Norway's sovereign wealth fund divests 58 companies on environmental grounds

    11 March 2016

    Norway's giant sovereign wealth fund divested from 58 companies last year because they were deemed to pose environmental risks.

  • Norway's oil fund divests from Korea's Posco and Daewoo

    18 August 2015

    Norway's sovereign wealth fund – the largest in the world – is to exclude leading Korean companies Posco and Daewoo International from its investment portfolio because of their involvement in palm oil plantations in Indonesia.

  • BlackBerry among FTSE4Good additions as the index breaks link with EIRIS

    16 September 2013

    BlackBerry, Clorox and MGM Resorts International are among 30 companies added to FTSE's responsible investment index in its semi-annual review, while no firms were deleted.