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Quantitative data is not 'cure' for transition transparency, honesty challenge

Disclosing more quantitative data will not be sufficient to "cure" issues around transparency and honesty in transition finance, investors told an Environmental Finance event.

Say-on-climate 'needs more evidence', says Fidelity

Fidelity International committed to continue voting in 'say on climate' votes, but it admitted more evidence is needed that they are leading to "real world emissions reductions".

Biodiversity fund assets triple in 2022 to nearly $1bn

Assets in biodiversity funds passed $984 million at the end of 2022, with a flurry of strategy launches despite macroeconomic woes, Thomas Cox reports

COP15: $24trn investor group calls for agreement on Global Biodiversity Framework

150 financial institutions representing over $24 trillion in assets under management have called on countries to adopt a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15).

SLBs without 1.5֯ C targets 'don't hold water'

Investors and underwriters disagree about what makes a good sustainability-linked bond, writes Madeleine Jenkins

Fidelity International commits to halve portfolio emissions by 2030

News Round Up: PGE, Access To Medicine, S&P Global Platts, and more

Investors issue call for "fair and equitable" global response to Covid-19

News round-up: Investors go to work on deforestation, DFIs go fossil fuel-free

€1.8trn of investors urge companies to tackle deforestation

$6bn charity criticises 'appalling' climate voting records of major investors, advisors

The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) has sent a letter to a dozen major global investors, pension consultants and proxy voting advisors criticising their "appalling" records for using shareholders' votes to deliver the transition to a net-zero economy.