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PAI looks to embed carbon pricing throughout its portfolio

PAI Partners is to encourage its portfolio companies this year to use internal carbon pricing, in a bid to better manage transition risks within its funds.

PAI broadens its sustainability lens to include water

Private equity firm PAI Partners has added water to its sustainability assessments, in recognition of its importance to its portfolio, Environmental Finance has learned.

People Moves 2 September, including IFC, ISSB, HSBC & more...

ESG in Fixed Income Global Series - Sustainability-Linked Products and Social Bonds roundup

Environmental Finance's Sustainability-Linked Products and Social Bonds day - the third of six events in the ESG in Fixed Income Global Series of conferences - ended after two days of panels, presentations and speed networking sessions.

Social bonds: Impact reporting 'more important than the label'

Impact reporting was described as a "necessity" for social bond issuance by speakers in the Social Bond instalment...

Handbook for transition finance calls for science-based pathways

The Green and Social Bond Principles has issued a handbook providing guidelines for issuers of climate transition finance, and calling for an issuer's climate strategy to reference science-based targets and transition pathways.

IFC elected chair of GBP/SBP excom

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has been elected chair of the executive committee (excom) of the green, social and sustainability-linked bond principles

Exclusive: IFC to integrate ESG into underwriter selection process

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has become the first green and social bond issuer to formally integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into its underwriter selection process.

Winners revealed in Environmental Finance's Bond Awards 2020

Environmental Finance's Bond Awards were expanded again this year to reflect the growth and evolution of the green, social and sustainability (GSS) bond markets and to include the nascent GSS loan market.

People moves: ICMA, JP Morgan and BIG

The International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Esohe Denise Odaro has taken a secondment at the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), where she is director in the Green Bond Principles/Social Bond Principles (GBP/SBP) secretariat.