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  • Sustainability-linked finance guidelines for shipping firms published

    17 February 2022

    Guidelines for shipping firms and lenders on issuing sustainability-linked loans and bonds have been published by a working group of Nordic firms in order to introduce a higher level of industry standardisation and avoid 'greenwashing'.

  • Nordea, Kempen among new Finance for Biodiversity Pledge signatories

    30 November 2021

    Financial firms managing more than €12 trillion ($13.6 trillion) in assets have now signed the Finance for Biodiversity Pledge after nine new signatories joined the initiative, including Nordea Asset Management and Kempen.

  • KLP among investors in €270m housing impact fundraise

    01 October 2021

    Norway's KLP pension fund was among investors to commit about €270 million ($310 million) to an 'affordable' housing impact fund that incorporates a 'penalty clause' if the fund does not meet its impact or financial targets.

  • 2DII launches PACTA advisory group

    03 June 2021

    2° Investing Initiative (2DII) has appointed an expert group to advise on new governance for the Paris-based thinktank's climate scenario analysis and alignment methodology.

  • News round-up: KLP, National Pension Service of Korea, Pioneer Point and more

    28 May 2021
  • KLP invests €200m in green infrastructure

    28 May 2021
  • Investor support for Mizuho Financial climate resolution grows

    23 June 2020

    Mizuho Financial faces growing pressure as more investors back a shareholder resolution calling on the bank to disclose its climate risks and publish a plan to align investments to the Paris Agreement.

  • Norway's largest pension fund to exclude oil sands companies

    07 October 2019

    Norwegian public sector pension fund KLP has pledged to exclude companies that make more than 5% of their revenue from oil sands.

  • Institutional investors call for sea change in fish farming

    05 June 2019

    Climate change, pollution and antibiotic resistance could sink the fast-growing fish farming industry, the investor network FAIRR has warned.

  • UNEP FI and investors release study on climate risk reporting

    10 May 2019

    A major study has been issued looking at the different ways that investors can measure and report climate risks.