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Support for HSBC chair slips after 'climate backsliding'

HSBC must take action to halt "further climate backsliding" if it is to rebuild confidence with sustainability-focused investors, after some investors withdrew support for some board members at the bank's AGM.

Sustainable Debt EMEA returns to London next week

Environmental Finance's 14th annual Sustainable Debt EMEA conference returns to London on 23 April.

Sector-specific standards: (re)opening Pandora's box?

Investors are wary that overhauling sector-based sustainability reporting rules could increase complexity, Michael Hurley writes

Sustainable debt round-up: TenneT, Nordea, Emirates NBD ... and more

Pension fund 'puzzled' by failure of Maersk sustainability proposals

The failure of two sustainability-related shareholder proposals at shipping giant Maersk's AGM this week was described as "puzzling" by their filer, AkademikerPension, which argued the proposals cover potentially financially material issues.

Will 2026 be the 'Year of Transition Debt'?

There is optimism for the label after guidance provided 'comfort and confidence' to the market, but the focus should be on demonstrating well-supported action rather than just ambition. Ahren Lester reports

Emirates NBD: 'Banks need to share what we see as credible transition metrics'

Commercial banks have been encouraged to start publicly sharing the transition metrics they consider are "credible" for companies in critical hard-to-abate sectors to help the market identify "what good looks like" in transition finance.

Why asset managers are walking away from NZAM

More than 70 asset managers have either left the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM) or are taking an extended review period despite a recent relaunch, Environmental Finance understands.

Sustainable bonds could be 'killer app' for digital bond technology

The sustainable bond market should make digital bond structures the norm for transactions, Razvan Dumitrescu tells Ahren Lester

'Blue bonds are next big wave in sustainable finance'

'Blue bonds' are the most international and resilient sustainable finance asset class in a politically charged world, and highly scalable even among corporates, according to Emirates NBD.