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Green bond regulation, SFDR guidance among ESMA's 2024 priorities
28 September 2023The EU's securities markets regulator has said it will "seek to improve the overall consistency and efficiency of the regulatory framework" governing sustainable finance in its 'strategic priorities' for next year, as it awaits the result of a review of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).
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TNFD requires faster adoption than TCFD, says UK treasury minister
26 September 2023International adoption of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) disclosure recommendations "must go faster" than adoption of the equivalent framework for climate, a junior minister at the UK treasury has urged.
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Natural Capital Investment Americas 2023: TNFD 'will need filtering before integration into ISSB'
26 September 2023The recently released recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) will need to be "filtered" before being integrated into the standards created by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), one of the IFRS Foundation's directors has suggested.
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ISS ESG asks for feedback on its corporate ratings amid regulatory upheaval
25 September 2023ISS ESG has for the first time requested public feedback on its ESG Corporate Ratings, to inform its development of the product "in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape".
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TNFD's additional disclosure metrics welcomed by data providers
21 September 2023Additional disclosure points in the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) final disclosure framework, which look to further identify social factors and 'priority locations', have been welcomed by ESG data providers.
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Green revenues to smash $5trn by 2025, FTSE Russell estimates
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CDP and NZDPU partner on free climate data repository
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US SEC adopts fund naming rules to tackle greenwashing
21 September 2023The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is to require funds claiming environmental, social and governance (ESG) characteristics to prove they invest in line with the claim, under changes to its Names Rule designed to "prevent misleading or deceptive investment fund names".
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GFANZ launches consultation on transition finance definitions
20 September 2023
- Financial institution SFDR reports fail to explain adverse impacts, regulators say
- Green bond regulation, SFDR guidance among ESMA's 2024 priorities
- Australian companies lagging in net-zero targets, says Climate Action 100+
- ESG in Fixed Income Americas 2023: BlackRock: 'transition investments are green'
- People Moves, 29 September: AXA IM, Just Climate, Agilitas, General Atlantic, UKSIF... and more
- Report reveals top insurers of US coal
- Japan: a land of climate opportunity
- Insurance Risk & Capital Americas 2023: Climate change already making some perils 'uninsurable'
- Ardian launches nature fund with €1.5bn target
- SME GHG emissions reporting 'disjointed', says Bankers for Net-Zero

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