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Good news from Brazil for climate and biodiversity-conscious investors
08 June 2023Brazil continues to face challenges in reversing years of damaging environmental policies and activity, but Luis Lopez Vivas argues that sustainable investors should be ready to seize the opportunities on the horizon
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Opinion: The EU's climate benchmarks need to get with the times
07 June 2023The financial industry's thinking on assessing transition has moved on since the EU introduced its climate benchmarks, argues Michael Hurley
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Zimbabwe's attack on carbon offsets
06 June 2023The cancelation of carbon offset contracts by the Zimbabwe government could have wider implications for the fragile voluntary carbon market, argue Brad Handler and Morgan Bazilian
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A 'mistake' for regulators to homogenise ESG ratings
05 June 2023Regulators risk stifling market innovation by standardising ESG ratings, and instead should focus on improving transparency, ESG Book's Leon Saunders Calvert tells Genevieve Redgrave
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Electrification: The biggest opportunity in the history of capitalism?
02 June 2023The transition to an electrified energy system constitutes a new industrial revolution, but it is unfolding at the speed of digital revolution, José Lazuen writes.
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Schroders explains its carbon-offset climate fund
01 June 2023Carbon credits can help get companies over the last mile in their decarbonisation journey, Andy Howard tells Peter Cripps
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AIB: SLL bond market development would be 'big plus'
31 May 2023After successful green and social bond issuance, the Irish bank is eager for the sustainable bond market to develop an instrument to directly support sustainability-linked loan lending. Ahren Lester reports
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Paris-aligned benchmarks boom but are they helping the transition? Part two
30 May 2023Asset owners are placing money in Paris-aligned benchmarks at a quickening rate but questioned whether they facilitate the transition. Michael Hurley reports
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Paris-aligned benchmarks boom but are they helping the transition? Part one
29 May 2023Asset owners are placing money in Paris-aligned benchmarks at a quickening rate but questioned whether they facilitate the transition. Michael Hurley reports
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Why proxy advisors must offer investors advice aligned to net zero
25 May 2023Investors are calling for a speciality net-zero policy from proxy advisors, in addition to further incorporation of climate into their standard policies, writes Edward Mason
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