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The Race to Zero campaign launched by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has formed a finance sector expert group (FSEG) to develop "consistent, fair, and rigorous" guidelines for assessing which financial firms should be eligible to join the initiative..

A hoax Bank of England (BoE) press release falsely announced the central bank will exclude firms that are most exposed to climate risk from its £20 billion ($27 billion) corporate bond purchase programme.

The annual conference is being held virtually this year and attracted over 600 delegates on its first day

ESG in Fixed Income Europe 2020 conference: The 'use of proceeds' model adopted by most green bonds came under attack, amid allegations that it is susceptible to 'greenwashing'.

Transition finance has garnered a lot of attention, but the challenge of delineating what exactly it is remains unresolved. Three recent reports try to balance the need for the definition to be both broad enough to be inclusive, yet specific enough to protect the instruments from claims of greenwashing. Ahren Lester reports.

The improvement in environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices by private sector firms positively impacts national growth in both developed and emerging economies, an academic paper reported.

The regulator of the US futures and options markets has appointed a 35-member committee of experts to assess the risks posed by climate change to the financial markets.

Ben Caldecott has been appointed senior advisor to Rhian-Mari Thomas, the CEO of the UK’s Green Finance Institute.

The UK's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is to step up its oversight of climate change after a survey revealed that only 10% of banks are treating the issue as a strategic risk.