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  • Ricardo Lara reveals California's fossil fuel investors

    20 April 2022

    Green bond holders also unearthed in annual study

  • Environmental risk regulations tightened in Nepal

    16 February 2022

    Environmental and social risks will have to be considered by banks and financial institutions under new requirements from the Nepalese central bank.

  • UN agency advocates 'more long-term' credit ratings with SDG bent

    14 January 2022

    Credit ratings agencies should be required to take a longer-term approach to assessing the credit quality of sovereign issuers, to account for climate risk and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a UN department has suggested.

  • US financial regulators urged to address climate risk

    07 January 2022

    US financial regulators have been urged to make 2022 a year of action on climate change.

  • UK pension regulator sets climate reporting penalties

    17 December 2021

    The UK pension regulator has published details on the penalties associated with failing to report properly on climate-related risks,...

  • People Moves 12 November: Blackstone, JP Morgan, BNP Paribas and more

    12 November 2021

  • UK Department for Work and Pensions issues draft climate rules

    25 October 2021

    The UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has tabled draft rules that would require pension schemes to measure and report on their investment portfolios'...

  • UK pensions' 'mixed' social investment record scrutinised by government

    25 March 2021

    UK pensions trustees have been asked by the government to provide information on social factors of their investments after a senior minister expressed concern that these are currently "not well understood".

  • News round-up: US ditches ESG pension fund rules, Axa drops Rwe, Xpansiv launches nature-based carbon offset contracts

    12 March 2021

  • US labour department drops restrictive ESG rules for pension funds

    12 March 2021