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NIB prices inaugural blue bond
25 January 2019Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has priced a "landmark" blue bond to help protect and rehabilitate the Baltic Sea.
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Asia Sustainable Finance Initiative launched with Singapore focus
21 January 2019An initiative to increase the supply of sustainable finance from Asian financial institutions will use Singapore as a hub to catalyse regional development.
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The tragic V sign
14 January 2019A radical rethink of land management and agricultural policy is required to help combat further biodiversity loss, says Sarasin's Henry Boucher
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Set sustainable lending policy to reap reward, emerging market banks told
08 January 2019Banks operating in Southeast Asia and parts of Latin America have an ‘historic opportunity’ to reap multi-trillion-dollar benefits by adopting or improving their sustainable lending policies, according to Global Canopy.
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Environmental Approval Regulations: Why investors should take note
28 December 2018A legal ruling in Germany could set a precedent that accelerates European coal divestment, argues Kim Schumacher
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French insurers’ climate-related disclosures mostly ‘difficult to understand’, says WWF
26 November 2018French insurers' climate-related disclosures have improved, but the information is still often inaccessible and difficult to understand, according to research by WWF France.
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EU committee votes to strengthen ESG disclosure proposal
06 November 2018An overwhelming majority of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) has supported a beefed-up version of a Commission proposal on sustainability disclosure and investors' duties.
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Investors and corporates join forces in new plastics initiative
31 October 2018More 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".
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Boston Common backs ‘blue economy’ finance principles
30 October 2018Boston Common Asset Management has added its name to the growing number of financial institutions that have endorsed a set of principles for investing to support the world’s oceans.
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First sovereign blue bond launched
29 October 2018The Republic of Seychelles has issued a first-of-its-kind sovereign 'blue bond' to help conserve its marine environment, sparking hopes that the deal will kickstart a new market for ocean-themed bonds.