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Inflows to sustainable funds down by almost half over 2024
28 January 2025Global sustainable open-end and exchange-traded funds saw inflows shrink by almost half over 2024 despite a "boom" for mainstream strategies, according to data from Morningstar Sustainalytics.
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Foresight acquires impact investor WHEB
28 January 2025Foresight Group has acquired London-based impact investor WHEB Aset Management for an undisclosed amount, in a deal that it says will reinforce its position as "a leader in impact investing in public markets".
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Biodiversity risk platform Dunya Analytics launches
28 January 2025A new platform to track biodiversity risk has been launched to help companies better understand how they interact with nature and meet the growing number of regulatory reporting requirements.
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Climate finance flowing to wrong agriculture solutions, says FAIRR
28 January 2025Climate financing for agriculture would be more effectively spent on nature-based solutions than on technology, the FAIRR initiative has said in a "first-of-its-kind" study.
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'Another $1trn sustainable bond market in 2025'
27 January 2025Sustainable bond issuance is forecast to cross $1 trillion for the third consecutive year in 2025, with green bonds once again expected to excel.
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Decline in energy sector's EU taxonomy alignment bucks positive trend in other sectors
27 January 2025Energy companies reported a decline in their alignment with the EU taxonomy last year, bucking a trend of increased alignment in most other sectors which data provider Bloomberg said bolstered the use case for the taxonomy.
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Schroders 'first' to comply with all four SDR labels
27 January 2025Schroders said it is the 'first' to adopt all four labels under the UK Financial Conduct Authority's Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) regime, after another three funds adopted labels.
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Leaked paper says EU omnibus will protect investors' data needs
27 January 2025'Simplification' of sustainability reporting requirements will be done in a way that 'ensure[s] tight alignment of the data required with the needs of investors', according to a leaked draft policy paper by the European Commission.
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France calls for 'massive regulatory pause' of CSDDD, CSRD
24 January 2025The EU should 'indefinite[ly] postpone' sustainability due diligence rules and delay implementation of its Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) by two years, the French government has said.
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Landmark A2A green bond 'bodes well' for EU GBS issuance
24 January 2025Italian utility firm A2A has raised €500 million ($520 million) from the first green bond issued under the EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS),...
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