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  • Societe Generale responds to SDGs with new initiative

    15 November 2017

    Societe Generale is creating a new initiative to help finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • M&G fund applies ESG to high-yield bonds

    15 November 2017

    M&G Investments has launched a bond fund focusing on the high-yield market that will incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.

  • Climate tool for financial firms launched at COP23

    10 November 2017

    A tool designed to help share knowledge about how financial firms are integrating climate considerations into their businesses has been launched at the Bonn Climate Summit.

  • IEA moves to incorporate SDGs in key scenario

    09 November 2017

    The International Energy Agency (IEA) is replacing the '450 Scenario' in its World Energy Outlook report with a Sustainable Development Scenario.

  • Mapfre buys 25% stake in ESG investment boutique

    08 November 2017

    Spanish insurer Mapfre has bought a 25% stake in La Financière Responsable (LFR) to better integrate environmental, social and governmental (ESG) factors in its investments.

  • Last chance to vote in Environmental Finance Market Rankings

    06 November 2017

    Voting in Environmental Finance's Annual Market Rankings – the most closely watched survey of the world's environmental markets – will close at midnight tomorrow (Tuesday 7 November).

  • Voting in Environmental Finance's 18th Annual Market Rankings closes soon

    03 November 2017

    Voting has begun in the Environmental Finance Annual Market Rankings – the largest and most closely watched survey of the world's environmental markets.

  • Fundsmith enters sustainability arena and slams competition

    02 November 2017

    Fundsmith launched its first sustainability fund, while taking a swipe at other offerings in the space, pointing to "fatal flaws in the way that existing environmental, social and governance (ESG) monitoring is applied."

  • S&P Dow Jones discloses carbon metrics for its equity indexes

    31 October 2017

    Index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&PDJI) has begun publishing key carbon metrics for its equity indexes in response to growing investor interest in the risks associated with carbon emissions.

  • EAPF issues call-to-arms for climate transparency

    30 October 2017

    The UK's Environment Agency Pension Fund (EAPF) has issued a rallying cry to the finance sector to step up its focus on climate change disclosures .