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  • Extensive 'reliefs' in EU standards risk hiding key information, investors warn

    04 December 2025

    A raft of measures designed to reduce reporting burdens by giving companies the option to omit sustainability information from EU regulatory reporting risks obscuring key information from investors, an investor group has warned.

  • Sustainable debt round-up: Masdar, Philips, RIVUS Cluj-Napoca ... and more

    28 May 2025

  • Philips Pensioenfonds ditches Facebook in new SDG index

    21 December 2021

    Philips Pensioenfonds has excluded 8% of assets and at least 200 companies, including Facebook and ExxonMobil in its new iSTOXX PPF Responsible SDG Index.

  • Reducing emissions demands more focus on supply chains

    22 November 2021

    How corporates are beginning to reduce supply chain emissions can provide a blueprint for investors to do the same, argues Mark Leftwich

  • ESG news round-up: Calvert joins Morgan Stanley; CofE drops ExxonMobil; HSBC in net-zero pledge

    09 October 2020

  • Bonds round-up: TenneT, Philips, NWB, LBBW, Avangrid and more...

    22 May 2019

    SFIL, a state-owned lender to French local authorities, has issued a €1 billion ($1.1 billion) social bond, following a similar transaction by its Caffil subsidiary in February 2019.

  • Circularity Capital closes upsized equity fund at £60m

    14 January 2019

    Circularity Capital has reached a £60 million ($77 million) final close for an equity fund – smashing its £50 million target.

  • Investors and corporates join forces in new plastics initiative

    31 October 2018

    More than 15 major institutional investors and organisations representing several hundred companies have joined forces in support of a new initiative "to eradicate plastic waste and pollution at source".

  • The green and sustainability loan market: ready for take-off

    20 July 2018

    Green and sustainability loans are the hot new trend in sustainable finance. Could they outgrow the booming green bond market, ask Nick Roumpis and Peter Cripps.

  • Standardisation of scenarios is necessary for oil & gas, Carbon Tracker says

    21 May 2018

    A common reference scenario for the oil & gas sector is needed to boost comparability, said Carbon Tracker, after its analysis exposed large disparities in companies’ consideration of the potential impacts of climate change.