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WBA publishes ranking of electric utilities
06 July 2020The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has published a climate ranking of the 50 most influential electric utilities, finding only four have defined a clear target to provide green energy aligned to the Paris Agreement.
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GRESB launches climate risk platform
03 July 2020The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) is to launch a platform assessing real estate and infrastructure's exposure to physical climate risk.
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ESG data market 'to more than double, to $5bn'
26 June 2020The environmental, social and governance (ESG) data and services market could more than double to over $5 billion by 2025, it has been forecast, as institutional investor interest grows in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Industry heads call for ESG data register across EU
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Norges Bank calls for 'financially material' ESG disclosure by companies
08 June 2020Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has called for the EU's Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) to require companies to disclose environmental, social and governance (ESG) data that is 'financially material' to their operations.
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ESG data providers taking impact data seriously - ISS ESG
02 June 2020Specialist sustainability data providers including ISS ESG are aware of the "enormous demand" for products that focus on assessing positive and negative impact of investments, according to the company.
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$500m real estate green loan agreed in Singapore
19 May 2020Singaporean property manager GuocoLand has agreed a SGD730 million ($515 million) green loan for the construction of a residential and commercial development.
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Nomura pursuing improvements in Japanese impact reporting
18 May 2020Nomura is planning to engage more with Japanese listed companies to ask them to disclose sustainability information, according to the manager of its Global Sustainable Equity fund.
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S&P Global ESG Scores launched
18 May 2020S&P Global has increased its presence in the increasingly competitive ESG data market, with the launch of its proprietary 'S&P Global ESG Scores'.
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Exclusive: BlackRock partners with Rhodium to model climate risk
07 May 2020BlackRock is to partner with research firm Rhodium Group to provide data on the physical impacts of climate change.