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  • Amundi remains committed to just transition as flagship fund renamed

    11 November 2024

    The Amundi Just Transition for Climate fund has been renamed following updated guidance from ESMA for funds with ESG or sustainability-related names.

  • UK's FRC downgrades 'environment and society' in updated definition of stewardship

    11 November 2024

    The UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has downgraded the words 'environment and society' in a redefinition of stewardship under proposed updates to the country's Stewardship Code.

  • 'Boiling down' natural capital definition will help drive pension flows, says Redington

    06 November 2024

    Simplifying the nuances of natural capital into broad, understandable themes will help pension funds to begin understanding and allocating towards the theme, a consultancy has claimed.

  • NGFS says updated scenarios signal two-to-four-times higher physical impacts

    05 November 2024

    The Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) group of central banks and supervisors has called for more ambitious policies to tackle the 'first order' risk of climate change, as its updated scenarios showed two-to-four-times bigger physical impacts than its previous iterations.

  • Geopolitics now a 'very complex issue' for sustainability, says Ma Jun

    05 November 2024

    Geopolitics is making the sustainable transition increasingly difficult, with room for multilateral cooperation diminishing, Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun has said.

  • IFVI explores impact of product or service with new methodology

    04 November 2024

    The International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) is exploring a future methodology that provides insights into the impact of a product or service rather than the organisation offering it, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • World-first disclosure standards for public sector climate reporting unveiled

    01 November 2024

    World-first disclosure standards for public sector climate-related disclosures have been unveiled, which it is hoped could vastly improve data available to institutional investors in government debt.

  • Ninety One's EAAIF backs $550m African mobile connectivity bond issuance

    29 October 2024
  • Eight governments pledge over $160m to Global Biodiversity Framework Fund

    29 October 2024

    Eight more governments have pledged an additional $163 million to the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) at COP16 in Cali, Colombia, including the UK, France and Germany.

  • Webinar: Vague definition of greenwashing deters 'transition' finance

    29 October 2024

    The growth of 'transition' finance is being held back by fears among debt issuers of being accused of greenwashing - a situation exacerbated by national regulators failing to clearly define what constituted greenwashing, a webinar hosted by Environmental Finance heard.