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Impact taskforce drafts disclosure guidance for meeting SDGs
22 April 2024The Impact Disclosure Taskforce has published draft disclosure guidance to help corporate and sovereign issuers measure and disclose their efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Microfinance firm issues first social bond in Panama
22 April 2024BBVA Microfinance Foundation-owned Microserfin has raised $5 million from the first social bond in Panama as part of a planned $40 million programme.
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Mandatory plastic disclosure takes centre stage in treaty negotiations
22 April 2024Mandatory plastic disclosures for the financial sector could be one step closer as negotiations restart on a global plastics treaty, but the market has lamented the slow progress.
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SEB warns of 'dire need' to tackle slowdown in sustainable bond market
22 April 2024A slowdown in growth of the sustainable bond market during the first quarter suggests it is "living off the boom years" and issuance is not where it needs to be to meet climate targets, warns SEB's Gregor Vulturius.
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Comment: Are we finally ready to have a grown-up conversation about the transition?
22 April 2024There are encouraging signs we are starting to have a more sophisticated and practical conversation about how to invest in the transition, says Peter Cripps
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US launches task force that will study CBAM-style rules
19 April 2024The US government has established a White House Climate and Trade Task Force to study ways it can tackle "carbon leakage, carbon dumping, and embodied carbon in general" and draw lessons from the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
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US lawmakers approve bill seeking to block SEC climate rule
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Canadian taxonomy useless if it includes new oil and gas, government warned
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Hard-to-abate 'transition' bonds can be 'green' if obsolescence risk managed
19 April 2024Bond issuances tackling hard-to-abate sectors can have their transition-focused bonds judged as green bonds if they manage "obsolescence risk," a sustainable bond investor told an Environmental Finance event.
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People Moves, 19 April: Barclays, Zurich, Eurosif, Scottish Widows, Robeco and ... more
19 April 2024