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People Moves, 5 April: Brunel Pensions, Railpen, Actis, EFRAG, TNFD and more

Sustainability-linked bond issuance limps into 2024

Sustainability-linked bond (SLB) issuance has had its weakest start to a year since the publication of principles boosted the market in 2020, according to Environmental Finance research.

Don't demonise high emitting companies that disclose Scope 3, says pensions group

Investors risk "misallocating capital" if they unfairly punish high-emitting companies that disclose their Scope 3 emissions, as these will often make them look worse than peers that fail to disclose, a senior figure at a UK pensions group has warned.

People Moves, 26 January: GRI, GIIN, Impax, ISS ESG ... and more

Bond round-up: France, EIB, Enel ... and more

Enel returns to sustainability-linked bonds with €1.75bn deal

The biggest issuer of sustainability-linked bonds (SLB) has returned to the market after nearly a year's absence.

Sovereigns lead 2023 sustainable bond issuance back to growth

Resurgent green bond issuance and record-breaking activity from governments edged the sustainable bond market back close to $1 trillion in 2023, Ahren Lester reports

Asset managers' climate stewardship needs to be 'dismantled', says pension fund

An analysis of asset managers' voting records on climate resolutions at oil and gas companies has triggered one of the UK's biggest pension funds to call for a "complete dismantling" of the industry's approach to stewardship.

EU Green Bonds: reducing the risk of greenwashing

The EU's Green Bond Regulation will create an extra burden for issuers, but issues that comply will prove more attractive to investors, write Massimiliano Danusso and Francesca Marchetti

Adaptation, not risk mitigation, needed for apparel production assets, says Schroders