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Sustainable investors brace for Trump victory
06 November 2024Republican candidate Donald Trump has won his second term as president after defeating Democrat rival Kamala Harris, posing fresh questions about US commitment to tackling climate change.
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NGFS says updated scenarios signal two-to-four-times higher physical impacts
05 November 2024The Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) group of central banks and supervisors has called for more ambitious policies to tackle the 'first order' risk of climate change, as its updated scenarios showed two-to-four-times bigger physical impacts than its previous iterations.
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Transition plan guidance published for EU disclosure rules
05 November 2024Draft guidance has been published to help organisations preparing to report in line with EU disclosure regulations create climate mitigation transition plans.
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EU green bond market expected to 'pick up' after recent share 'dip'
05 November 2024The European Environment Agency (EEA) expects the share of corporate and government green bonds in the EU bond market to "pick up" in the future after 2023 saw the first decline in market share contraction since 2018.
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Abrdn and Palladium Group launch nature investment partnership
05 November 2024Asset manager abrdn and impact advisory firm Palladium Group have launched a programme to invest in nature regeneration sites across Scotland.
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Geopolitics now a 'very complex issue' for sustainability, says Ma Jun
05 November 2024Geopolitics is making the sustainable transition increasingly difficult, with room for multilateral cooperation diminishing, Chinese environmentalist Ma Jun has said.
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Scotland launches strategy to scale up nature markets
05 November 2024The Scottish government has launched a strategy to scale up private investment in high-integrity nature markets, specifically looking at how to use blended finance.
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Shareholders expect us to be sustainable, says Swire
04 November 2024Shareholders in global conglomerate Swire are asking fewer questions about its sustainability because they already expect them to be sustainable, Environmental Finance has heard.
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Members network to push for 'global norms' on transition plans after TPT disbands
04 November 2024A membership network is set for launch that will "support the development of global norms for transition plans", the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) revealed in a report marking the end of the taskforce.
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Natixis: Repos invaluable for 'working sustainable assets harder'
04 November 2024Sustainable repos are increasingly being recognised for their value in "working sustainable assets harder," according to Natixis - including "crowding in" underutilised asset categories in the sustainable bond market.
- Human rights impacts should be part of nature disclosure
- Using the SDGs to invest in sovereign debt
- Sovereign 'tension' with corporate sustainable bond investments needs addressing
- Lloyds launches UK food and nature resilience fund
- AI data centre sustainable debt spurs innovation - and risk
- The dark side of AI investment
- Allianz & Zurich launch blended finance investment company
- US-Iran conflict shows NGFS assumptions 'don't hold' amid fragmented transition
- 'Paris-aligned benchmarks' out of favour in fragmented transition, Lazard says
- UK forum to define carbon in bid to develop market