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  • Just transition is growing in importance in Gulf sustainable finance

    01 May 2025

    From Ahren Lester in Abu Dhabi

  • Pioneer closes second sustainable infra fund with €1.1bn

    30 April 2025

    Pioneer Point Partners has closed its second sustainable infrastructure fund, with €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) in capital commitments.

  • UAE looking to establish water finance agenda

    30 April 2025

    Genevieve Redgrave reporting from Abu Dhabi

  • Gulf should become the 'Silicon Valley of sustainable finance', says GCFC

    30 April 2025

    Genevieve Redgrave reporting from Abu Dhabi

  • Carbon trading 'increasingly pivotal' for transition finance, says MSCI

    24 April 2025

    The voluntary carbon markets are playing an "increasingly pivotal" role in transition finance, MSCI has said.

  • CSRD, SEC climate disclosure setbacks make rating climate risk harder, S&P warns

    23 April 2025

    Setbacks to the planned introduction of sustainability reporting rules in the EU and US are likely to make assessing the climate-related credit risk of companies harder, a senior executive at S&P has said.

  • GPIF sustainability policy an 'important signal' for Asia-Pacific transition

    16 April 2025

    The creation of a formal sustainable investment policy by Japan's $1.8 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) sets an important signal for shareholder advocacy in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC).

  • NZBA ditches requirement to target 1.5°C alignment to give banks more 'flexibility'

    15 April 2025

    The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) has approved changes to its framework to no longer require targeting 1.5°C alignment - instead allowing members to choose from "a wider range of net-zero pathways ... to limit global temperature rise to 'well below 2°C' and to strive for 1.5°C".

  • Climate policy pendulum may bring near-term relief but longer-term pain, S&P says

    11 April 2025

    Weakened climate-related policy in the US and Europe does not necessarily mean companies are exposed to less climate-related financial risk - with near-term relief tinged with the prospect of longer-term pain, according to credit ratings agency S&P.

  • Investor hesitation to back climate proposals leads shareholders to shelve resolutions

    10 April 2025

    Shareholder group Follow This has, for the first time since 2016, abandoned plans to file a climate-related resolution with oil and gas majors, as it blamed "investor hesitation" to back such proposals on US attacks on shareholder democracy.