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ESMA: ESG funds cheaper and outperform conventional peers

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds outperformed their conventional non-ESG peers while also being cheaper, according to a European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) study.

Climate AM begins $150m African farmland investment

TNFD reveals pilot tests as it readies second edition

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has revealed plans to pilot test its framework, as it prepares to publish a second iteration next month.

Family office launches biodiversity 'accelerator'

SEC charges BNY Mellon for 'misstatements and omissions' on ESG

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc. for "misstatements and omissions about environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations".

Lombard Odier launches sustainable private credit strategy

IFRS Foundation 'at odds' with academics on sustainability standards

The IFRS Foundation has been criticised for failing to consider the views of academics as it prepared to devise global baseline sustainability reporting standards.

UBS, SwissRe join carbon capture scale-up

Aggregate ESG ratings should be abolished

Aggregated environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings should be abolished, according to a survey, as results show that market participants "do not speak the same language" on what ratings are or should be.

HSBC rejects comments by its head of RI about climate

HSBC has distanced itself from the remarks of a senior employee who delivered a controversial speech about 'Why investors need not worry about climate risk'.