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  • SBTi tightens corporate climate target requirement from 2022

    16 July 2021

    The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) said that companies looking to validate their climate goals from mid-2022

  • BlackRock launches emerging markets impact bond fund

    16 July 2021

    BlackRock has launched a sustainable bond-focused active fund in its flagship emerging markets fixed income range

  • TCFD forward-looking proposals detrimental for asset owners, says TPI

    16 July 2021

    The Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) says its asset owner members are concerned at "significant gaps and technical weaknesses" in proposals by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), in a fierce rebuttal of plans to recommend 'forward-looking' climate reporting.

  • Hong Kong appoints sustainable finance group to bolster disclosures

    15 July 2021

    Hong Kong's securities regulator and central bank have helped create a group of experts to develop sustainability reporting and a dedicated carbon market in the territory.

  • Morgan Stanley: five takeaways for investors from UN biodiversity plan

    15 July 2021

    Morgan Stanley has revealed the implications of the UN's draft biodiversity plan for investors of targets...

  • FTSE Russell launches 'green impact bond' index series

    15 July 2021

    FTSE Russell has launched a range of 'green impact bond' indexes to measure the performance of green fixed income markets

  • Green and sustainability-linked loan round-up: Royal Adelaide Hospital, Ratch, Investec, Bud APAC ... and more

    15 July 2021
  • To tackle climate risk, we must tackle nature risk as well

    15 July 2021

    A triad of solutions exists to achieve a joint climate-nature transition, writes Philippe Zaouati

  • Report calls for Brazilian 'deforestation-linked' sovereign bond

    14 July 2021

    Planet Tracker and the Grantham Research Institute have called on Brazil to issue a deforestation-linked sovereign bond...

  • Investors use 'up to 100,000 pieces of data' to show EU taxonomy alignment

    14 July 2021

    The sustainability reporting burden imposed by regulation could be lessened in coming years with the development of a free-to-use European database, an Environmental Finance webinar heard. Michael Hurley reports