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Talking transition with metals and mining companies

Bringing 'brown' sectors to the green bond market is possible, but will require a sophisticated approach to assessing companies' strategies to shift to low-carbon business models, writes Manuel Adamini

VIDEO: What is next on the ESG horizon for Toyota?

Speaking at our ESG in Fixed Income Americas conference in September, Adam Stam, National Manager - Secured Funding at Toyota Motor Credit Corporation explains what projects Toyota is working on and how these relate to social and sustainability bonds and what is next on their ESG horizon.

‘World-leading’ UK Stewardship Code aims for greenwashing crackdown

Demographic trends pose risks to sovereign creditworthiness

Demographic trends are one of 15 factors considered by Fitch in its ESG relevance scores. Ed Parker explains

Fishing and sustainability data added to Bloomberg terminals

Bloomberg will host sustainability data from NGO Global Fishing Watch (GFW) on its terminals.

IOPS says ESG integration 'is in line with fiduciary duty'

A group of 87 pension fund regulators and supervisors has been advised to clarify that the explicit integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into pension fund investment and risk management is in line with fund managers' fiduciary duties.

Greencoat Capital acquires biomass plant from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners

Renewables investor Greencoat Capital has acquired the 40MW Templeborough Biomass Power Plant (TBPP) from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP).

Four in five EU coal plants 'now running at a loss'

Financial think tank Carbon Tracker estimates that four in five EU coal power plants are unprofitable, and utilities could lose €6.6 billion ($7.3 billion) in 2019 as a result.

Bioenergy, agriculture and forestry groups lament EU Taxonomy criteria

The “regrettable divergence” of the EU sustainability taxonomy’s criteria from existing European renewable energy regulation has been criticised by a group of industry associations.

Seafood Stewardship Index launched

An index has been launched that ranks 30 of the most influential seafood companies on their commitments, transparency and performance in relation to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).