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ICMA publishes innovative 'green enabler' sustainable bond guidance
25 June 2024The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has published "ground-breaking" guidance for financing 'green enabling' projects in sustainable bonds amid issuer caution in using these critical transition projects in green finance instruments.
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EU urged to use Biodiversity Net Gain as blueprint for Nature Restoration Law
24 June 2024Natural capital investor Gresham House has urged EU countries to use England's Biodiversity Net Gain legislation as a blueprint for implementing its recently approved Nature Restoration Law.
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WBCSD publishes avoided emissions guidance
24 June 2024The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has urged investors not to use avoided emissions to claim carbon neutrality, in its recently published "first guidance" for private markets on avoided emissions calculation and reporting standards.
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Apple, Amazon and EasyJet targeted on water data
24 June 2024A group of over 100 global financial institutions has targeted 1,029 high water use companies to disclose their water related impacts and risks to CDP, the non-profit environmental disclosure platform.
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Iceland issues first sovereign gender bond
24 June 2024Iceland has raised €50 million ($53.6 million) with the world's first sovereign gender bond in a private placement with investor Franklin Templeton.
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Howden finds $10trn of insurance coverage needed for net-zero transition
24 June 2024Over half of the $19 trillion committed to financing the transition to net-zero emissions by 2030 will require additional insurance coverage, according to a report from insurance broker Howden.
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ISSB tie-up with TPT sees it join crowded field of transition planning guidance
24 June 2024The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) will provide guidance on climate transition planning following an agreement to "assume responsibility for" the UK Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT)'s disclosure-specific materials.
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AI will be game changer for emerging markets and private equity data, predicts investor
21 June 2024Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be "a game changer" for ESG data, particularly when it comes to emerging markets and privately held companies, according to one investor.
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Enel 'rewarded' by investors after landmark SLB target miss, says AFII
21 June 2024The return of Enel to the sustainability-linked bond market following its historic target miss is a "strong vote of confidence" in the instrument...
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SBTi urged by nature investors to allow offsets
21 June 2024A group of prominent nature investors and conservation advisers have urged the Science-based Targets initiative (SBTi) to allow offsets within transition plans and proposed key principles to ensure 'guardrails' are put in place.
- Human rights impacts should be part of nature disclosure
- AI data centre sustainable debt spurs innovation - and risk
- Using the SDGs to invest in sovereign debt
- Sovereign 'tension' with corporate sustainable bond investments needs addressing
- Comment: Please stop talking about David Attenborough
- US-Iran conflict shows NGFS assumptions 'don't hold' amid fragmented transition
- Lloyds launches UK food and nature resilience fund
- Sustainable debt round-up: BBVA, Iberdrola, Republic of Austria ... and more
- Allianz & Zurich launch blended finance investment company
- Banco BPM enters growing green Tier 2 bond market