News

• Swiss pension fund manager extends exclusions to new oil and gas

  15 June 2026

  The Ethos Foundation has excluded companies involved in the development of new gas and oil projects from its investments, after it criticised the sector for ignoring investor requests for greater climate ambition.

• Taxonomies 'naturally converging' amid 'structured chaos'

  15 June 2026

  Although the landscape of competing sustainable finance taxonomies looks complicated, Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) argues that it disguises the growing convergence and interoperability between them.

• EU requests input on CSDDD guidance

  15 June 2026

  The European Commission has asked for feedback to inform the development of guidelines on implementing the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).

• New Forests aims to raise $750m for first global nat cap strategy

  15 June 2026

  Australia-based asset manager New Forests is targeting $750 million for the launch of its first global natural capital strategy, Global Landscape Opportunities.

• 'BoE climate bond buying shows promise for bigger programme'

  15 June 2026

  A minor reduction in the cost of borrowing shows that the Bank of England (BoE)'s climate-themed bond purchases could be more effective if the central bank repeated it with bigger investments, according to CDP and the London School of Economics.

• Edentree advocates 'social-flavoured UK sovereign bond' after green success

  12 June 2026

  Investors are understood to be encouraging the UK government to consider issuing a social-focused sustainable bond after continued success for its innovative and expanding green bond programme, according to Edentree Investment Management (IM).

• German sustainable finance expert group handed 'simplification' mandate

  12 June 2026

  Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, DZ Bank and Union Investment employees are among appointees under a renewed mandate of an expert group to advise Germany's federal government on sustainable finance.

• AI risks are 'surging for financial institutions', finds RepRisk

  12 June 2026

  Financial institutions expect the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) to pose growing business conduct risks to their portfolios, according to a new report.

• EU banks to be quizzed on climate-related 'financial turmoil' in stress test

  12 June 2026

  EU banks are to be asked to report their exposure to climate-related physical and transition risks as part of an EU-wide stress test for the first time, the European Banking Authority (EBA) revealed.

• SBTi's Corporate Net Zero Standard 2.0 unveils role for carbon credits

  11 June 2026

  The long-awaited Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) Corporate Net Zero Standard 2.0 has urged companies to "deploy every lever in your control" to hit targets, which includes roles for energy attribute certificates (EACs) and carbon credits.