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Just transition is growing in importance in Gulf sustainable finance
01 May 2025From Ahren Lester in Abu Dhabi
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Pioneer closes second sustainable infra fund with €1.1bn
30 April 2025Pioneer Point Partners has closed its second sustainable infrastructure fund, with €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) in capital commitments.
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UAE looking to establish water finance agenda
30 April 2025Genevieve Redgrave reporting from Abu Dhabi
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Gulf should become the 'Silicon Valley of sustainable finance', says GCFC
30 April 2025Genevieve Redgrave reporting from Abu Dhabi
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Carbon trading 'increasingly pivotal' for transition finance, says MSCI
24 April 2025The voluntary carbon markets are playing an "increasingly pivotal" role in transition finance, MSCI has said.
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CSRD, SEC climate disclosure setbacks make rating climate risk harder, S&P warns
23 April 2025Setbacks 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.
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GPIF sustainability policy an 'important signal' for Asia-Pacific transition
16 April 2025The 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).
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NZBA ditches requirement to target 1.5°C alignment to give banks more 'flexibility'
15 April 2025The 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".
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Climate policy pendulum may bring near-term relief but longer-term pain, S&P says
11 April 2025Weakened 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.
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Investor hesitation to back climate proposals leads shareholders to shelve resolutions
10 April 2025Shareholder 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.