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Financial institutions 'think they don't have a real footprint on nature', says NatureTech Alliance
25 October 2024Financial institutions are lagging behind the rest of the private sector, research from the NatureTech Alliance has found, with data fragmentation also proving a key barrier.
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Investors sometimes need to go on their own for nat cap projects, says BNP Paribas
25 October 2024Sometimes investors will need to "pave the way" for others to follow when it comes to financing natural capital projects, according to BNP Paribas, as it spoke about its new coral reef loan programme.
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Governance failings dominate ESG-driven ratings actions, S&P reveals
25 October 2024Governance failings were the most cited reason for a raft of more than 100 ESG-driven ratings 'actions' this year, S&P Global Ratings has revealed, as it said 47 issuers have been downgraded largely for ESG reasons.
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South Korea 'reviewing' return to sovereign green bond market
24 October 2024The government of South Korea is currently considering the possibility of issuing another sovereign green bond, three years after its last issuance.
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Verra pledges faster project reviews despite workforce cuts
24 October 2024Standard setter Verra pledged to speed up its project review process, in its first update since it announced plans to cut its workforce by a quarter earlier this week.
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MSCI appoints Trucost founder Mattison as head of ESG and climate
24 October 2024Richard Mattison will join MSCI as head of ESG and climate at the end of the month, having left rival S&P Global earlier this year.
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Danish regulator uncovers shortcomings in bank and insurer taxonomy reporting
24 October 2024Denmark's financial regulator has found widespread "shortcomings" by the country's banks and insurers in a study of the first year of mandatory reporting of taxonomy alignment under EU regulation.
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Investor resources being tied up by regulatory burden, says ION Asset Management
24 October 2024The ever-developing sustainable finance regulatory landscape has created a growing cost to comply burden on smaller asset managers, despite lessening costs, says ION Asset Management.
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'AI means investors can't hide behind ESG ratings anymore'
24 October 2024The "disruptive" power of artificial intelligence (AI) means investors will no longer be able to "hide behind" the use of ESG ratings, a panel heard.
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Deregulation under Trump could 'set US course on climate for decades to come'
24 October 2024A victory for Donald Trump in next month's US presidential election would likely see widespread deregulation of the financial sector including of climate risk, feeding uncertainty that could "set the course for decades to come", data analytics provider Climate X has predicted.
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