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SASB and GRI announce sustainability disclosure collaboration
14 July 2020The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) have announced a collaboration to show how their two standards can be used together to help ease the reporting burden.
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Asset managers pressurise Brazil to ban Amazon fires
14 July 2020Work by asset managers sets 120-day ban following 34% increase in Amazonian deforestation this year
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Do insurers care about the Sustainable Development Goals?
14 July 2020The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are meant to be the "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". So why aren't insurers taking an active role in pursuing them? Paul Walsh reports
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Nippon Life to test impact investing waters with TPG investment
14 July 2020Nippon Life intends to invest this month in TPG's Rise Fund, as part of a plan to eventually invest JPY30 billion ($280 million), through its own strategy, into companies targeting a measurable positive social or environmental impact alongside financial returns.
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Voting underway in annual poll of voluntary carbon market
14 July 2020Nominations for Environmental Finance's 11th Annual Voluntary Carbon Markets Rankings are now open.
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World Bank launches EM green taxonomy development guidelines
13 July 2020The World Bank has published a guide for Emerging Market (EM) financial regulators that outlines the process required to develop their own taxonomy on activities and assets that can be deemed 'green'.
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Mark Carney launches climate disclosure initiative with London Stock Exchange
13 July 2020Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney and the London Stock Exchange plan to establish a global coalition of stock exchanges supporting climate disclosure in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
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Private wealth firms encouraged to develop impact, ESG products
13 July 2020Managers of private wealth, including family offices and high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs), have been encouraged to develop more products that focus on creating positive impact or that incorporate environmental, social or governance (ESG) considerations.
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ECB asset purchases could encourage more green bonds, says Fitch
13 July 2020The likelihood of the European Central Bank (ECB) taking climate change considerations into account in its €2.8 trillion ($3.2 trillion) asset purchase programme (APP) could boost issuance of green bonds, said ratings agency Fitch.
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WCI Carbon Market Update, 13 July 2020
13 July 2020Fundamental price drivers remain weak, but the economies of Quebec and California are both recovering says Nicolas Girod*.