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Tesco's investors asking further questions on nature
23 January 2024Investors of supermarket giant Tesco are asking more questions about its sourcing policies, specifically about how these impact nature.
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Record 2024 start for sovereign sustainable bond issuance
23 January 2024Sovereign sustainable bond issuance has already set a record for January issuance in 2024, as governmental issuance looks set to build upon the landmark total set in 2023.
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French regulator turns mystery shopper to check asset managers live up to sustainability promises
23 January 2024France's financial markets regulator will conduct spot checks of asset managers to check whether their voting and engagement practices meet the standards claimed in their marketing.
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Investors' scenario testing not recognising full climate risk, warns academic
23 January 2024The climate scenarios currently used by investors are not fit for purpose and do not adequately assess the full extent of risks, an academic has warned.
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Fund managers face SDR challenge to define 'sustainable', law firm says
23 January 2024Fund managers looking to adhere to the UK's forthcoming fund labelling and disclosure regime are to face a significant "subjectivity-related challenge" in determining what qualifies as sustainable, according to law firm Pinsent Masons.
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French regulator highlights lack of consistency and granularity in insurers' climate disclosures
22 January 2024French life insurers' climate disclosures relating to their investment strategies are heterogeneous, incomplete and lack granularity, according to the French prudential regulator, Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR).
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Rise of AI can benefit impact data, APG says
22 January 2024The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify and organise data presents opportunities in areas including sustainability-related impacts, according to one of Europe's largest asset managers.
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Biodiversity credit standard setter warns against use of offsets
22 January 2024Carbon and biodiversity credit certification scheme Cercarbono has warned against the use of biodiversity credits as offsets but argued that governments need to back the mechanism, even in the absence of compliance markets.
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ING hit by climate-related legal threat by NGO behind Shell court case
22 January 2024ING has been threatened with legal action by an NGO if the bank does not commit within the next two months to halve its absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
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Austria raises €2.5bn from green bonds in 'innovative' triple-tranche deal
19 January 2024Austria has raised €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) from two significantly oversubscribed green bond tranches issued through a ground-breaking triple-tranche syndication deal, with expectations of a record-breaking 2024 for total green bond issuance.
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- Erlandsson: Transition-linked bonds more impactful than use-of-proceeds equivalent
- Exclusive: Combined climate and nature value-at-risk tool launched
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