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  • Investor failure to vote for near-term climate targets would be hypocrisy, Hohn says

    23 April 2021

    Investors who do not support shareholder resolutions that aim to force major polluters to set near-term emissions reduction targets in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement have been warned that they would be guilty of "absolute greenwashing and hypocrisy".

  • Total commits to issuing only sustainability-linked bonds

    15 February 2021

    French oil supermajor Total has committed to all its new bond issues being 'sustainability-linked', in another boost for the nascent market.

  • S&P warns of oil & gas downgrades amid 'transition risks'

    27 January 2021

    Ratings agency S&P has warned 13 oil and gas companies that they face a credit downgrade within weeks, citing risks associated with the transition to a low-carbon economy and competition from renewables.

  • Oil and gas majors release joint transition principles

    17 December 2020

    Eight energy companies - BP, Eni, Equinor, Galp, Occidental, Repsol, Royal Dutch Shell and Total - have jointly developed a set of energy transition principles.

  • News round-up: Europex welcomes ETS review, Snam climate targets, India renewables investment

    27 November 2020
  • Macquarie and BT Pension push TPI support past $20trn

    16 October 2020

    Membership of the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) has surged past the $20 trillion milestone, just over three years after it was launched.

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

    09 October 2020
  • GIG and Total to develop 2.3GW of offshore wind projects in S. Korea

    01 September 2020

    Macquarie's Green Investment Group (GIG) and French oil and gas company Total are to co-develop an initial 2.3GW portfolio of floating offshore wind projects in South Korea.

  • Third of investor votes back Mizuho Financial climate resolution

    25 June 2020

    More than a third of Mizuho Financial investors backed a ground-breaking shareholder resolution urging the Japanese bank to disclose its climate risks and publish a plan to align investments with the Paris Agreement.

  • Fossil fuel reserve profits 'could fall by two-thirds'

    08 June 2020

    Falling demand and rising investment risk is forecast to slash profits from fossil fuel reserves, research by Carbon Tracker reported, estimating they could collapse by almost two-thirds.