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  • EBA advocates for 'green asset ratio' for banks

    01 March 2021

    The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published advice underlining the importance of the 'green asset ratio', supported by other KPIs, as a key means to understand how institutions are financing sustainable activities and meeting the Paris Agreement targets.

  • Use SFDR draft standards as reference point, ESAs say

    01 March 2021

    Financial institutions in the EU should "use as a reference" draft technical standards for sustainability-related disclosures until the standards formally enter into force, the three European Supervisory Authorities have said.

  • The Future of ESG Data: Environmental concerns rising up the agenda for sovereign bonds

    16 September 2020

    Environmental factors are becoming increasingly material considerations for investors in sovereign bonds, according to a panel of experts at Environmental Finance's The Future of ESG Data conference.

  • Shipping - the trillion-dollar challenge

    24 January 2020

    The growing support for the Poseidon Principles underlines the crucial role for finance in helping the shipping industry chart a course towards a greener future, says Ahren Lester

  • Bioenergy, agriculture and forestry groups lament EU Taxonomy criteria

    24 October 2019

    The “regrettable divergence” of the EU sustainability taxonomy’s criteria from existing European renewable energy regulation has been criticised by a group of industry associations.

  • Bonds round-up: Sparebank, Brookfield, Kommuninvest, Kerala ... and more

    18 September 2019

    Sparebank issues €500m green bond

  • Citigroup, Shell and 3M removed from DJSI World

    16 September 2019

    S&P Dow Jones Indices (DJI) and RobecoSAM have reviewed the companies in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) World and removed Citigroup, Shell and 3M from it. Citigroup remains in the DJSI North America, however.

  • Bonds round-up: New York MTA, SNCF, Tideway, CalSTRS, Kenya, Colombia ... and more

    21 August 2019

    New York MTA returns with 11th green bond, SNCF Reseau goes long with 100-year green bond and more

  • ESG in Fixed Income Europe, featuring Green Bonds

    03 July 2019

    Nearly 400 delegates attended the conference, now in its ninth year`

  • 'Prepare for abrupt repricing’ of climate risks in sovereign bonds

    24 May 2019

    Climate risk is underestimated as a risk factor by investors in sovereign bonds, who should prepare for the possibility of “an eventual abrupt repricing of environmental risks, including climate risks”, according to the findings of a major study.