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  • Investor alliance targets $10bn natural capital investment

    11 January 2021

    An 'alliance' of institutional investors HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management, Lombard Odier and Mirova aims to invest $10 billion in natural capital by next year.

  • 15 major investors back HSBC vote on fossil fuel phase-out plan

    11 January 2021
  • People Moves 8 January: HSBC, EcoSecurities, Standard Chartered, Posaidon, GAM, CBRE Global Investors, ODDO BHF, Hannon Armstrong, Sustainalytics

    08 January 2021
  • Bank of China issues first ICMA 'handbook'-linked transition bond

    08 January 2021

    The Hong Kong branch of the Bank of China (BoC) has raised $780 million from the first transition bond to be aligned with the recently announced transition finance recommendations from the administrators of the Green and Social Bond Principles.

  • Global banks supply $800m a day to plastics supply chain

    07 January 2021

    The amount of money that banks have pumped into the global plastics supply chain has been tracked in a new report

  • 'Double materiality' splits market in IFRS sustainability standards consultation

    07 January 2021
  • Third of UK 'low carbon' funds contain oil and gas holdings

    21 December 2020

    An investigation by think tank Common Wealth into UK funds with climate or low carbon themes has found over a third hold oil and gas producing companies.

  • Handbook for transition finance calls for science-based pathways

    09 December 2020

    The Green and Social Bond Principles has issued a handbook providing guidelines for issuers of climate transition finance, and calling for an issuer's climate strategy to reference science-based targets and transition pathways.

  • EU 'brown' taxonomy proposals split financial sector

    07 December 2020
  • Asset manager taskforce calls on bondholders to assert their rights

    24 November 2020

    A UK government-initiated taskforce has announced recommendations to strengthen sustainable stewardship in the UK investment industry, including encouraging investors to assert their rights in the bond and private markets.