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Sustainable finance: it's all about transition! Part one
06 September 2019In the first of this two-part series, Hervé P. Duteil explores the question of what transition finance is and identifies three revolutions within it
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Climate Action – how the bond market can finance the fight
05 September 2019The green bond market and the carbon markets could be combined to help decarbonise the economy, suggests Mark Leahy.
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Green bond comment September: Are stringent standards a good thing?
04 September 2019Heads were turned when it was recently revealed that just 17% of the market value of bonds contained in the Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Green Bond Index would meet the proposed EU Taxonomy criteria – and thus be eligible to be verified in line with the EU Green Bond Standard (GBS).
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A proposal for rating unremediated pollution costs of business
03 September 2019A new system could be used to price in externalities, argue Praveen Varma, Mark Gold and Henry Shilling
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Climate risk management: what about corporate lending?
26 August 2019Financial institutions need to do more, argues Brianna Peterson
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CPR-CDP fund out to prove value of disclosure
23 August 2019The manager of a ‘first-of-its-kind climate fund’ that could grow to more than €1 billion in size is encouraged by early results, Michael Hurley writes
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The ESG data files - part four: fixed income data
21 August 2019While the availability of sustainability-related data for fixed income investments is catching up with that for equities, much progress remains to be made, Michael Hurley is told
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A world under water stress
15 August 2019Water stress increasingly threatens an array of important industries, from agriculture to semiconductors – and investors should take note, says Andrew Harmstone
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What's next for the European Commission's Sustainable Finance Action Plan?
12 August 2019June was a key month for the Action Plan. Emmanuel Buttin, Maarten Vleeschhouwer and Tomas Vaclavicek give their assessment of the state of play and what will be the next steps.
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Major US insurer stops investing in or insuring coal
09 August 2019Chubb's decision reflects the increasing risks in the coal sector as a result of efforts to tackle climate change, argues Dave Jones
- Enel SLB target miss 'very significant event' for market
- Comment: Are we finally ready to have a grown-up conversation about the transition?
- ISSB to work on biodiversity disclosures
- Nature Action 100 publishes company benchmark design
- Transition bond label is a 'distraction' for transition finance, says MetLife IM
- What is the most important skill you need to succeed in sustainable finance?
- Governments urged to make nature transition plans mandatory
- Natural capital will become a fundamental component of investors' portfolios
- BoE suggests ways financial institutions can build on climate scenarios
- TotalEnergies pauses SLB plans amid weak market development