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  • Canadian engagement initiative identifies 40 target companies

    09 June 2022

    A list of 40 Canada-listed companies that will be targets of investor pressure on climate-related issues has been published by a burgeoning collaborative engagement initiative.

  • People moves 27 May: BlackRock, Just Climate, Candriam, Bridgepoint and more...

    27 May 2022

  • Is it right to spin-off brown companies?

    25 February 2022

    Rather than spinning off brown companies, a socially responsible shareholder should instead support an in-house transition, argue Martin Fleischer and Maurizio Parenti

  • Indonesian paper firm expansion 'litmus test' for 'net-zero' banks

    14 December 2021

    The substantial financing being sought by two Indonesian paper and pulp firms to support their expansion plans has been described by environmental groups as a "litmus test"...

  • Climate Investment Funds and Green Climate Fund - where do they go from here?

    18 June 2021

    While the GCF was intended to make the CIFs obsolete, the CIFs still have a key role to play, at least for the time being, argues Alexandra Tracy

  • External verification mandatory in updated Sustainability Linked Loan Principles

    01 June 2021

    External verification is now required under the Sustainability Linked Loan Principles (SLLP) following an update, with the voluntary standards published by three industry associations also tightening guidance on sustainability performance targets.

  • Social Loan Principles launched by industry associations

    13 April 2021

    Social Loan Principles (SLP) have been published by the trio of industry associations that administer the widely used voluntary principles for green and sustainability-linked loans.

  • Danish pension fund invests in 'women's empowerment' fund

    18 January 2021

    Danish pension fund Pædagogernes Pension (PBU) provided DKK 100 million ($16 million) as lead investor in the first close of SEAF's Women's Economic Empowerment Fund.

  • MACIF launches €20m impact asset manager

    07 October 2020

    French mutual insurer MACIF has launched MACIF Impact ESS, an asset manager focused on impact investment.

  • Green bond comment: September 2020: Sustainable loans market should learn a transparency lesson from bonds

    02 September 2020

    The sustainable loan market is emulating the labelled bond market in terms of its rapid growth. But the same cannot be said of the level of information it offers, laments Ahren Lester