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Calls for speedier grid connection for UK renewables projects

SEC's Gensler warns against legal challenge to climate disclosure rules

US companies will follow overseas climate reporting rules if an update to the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) climate rule is overturned in court, the regulator's head warned.

Biodiversity can't become another 'four-letter framework'

Biodiversity should not become another four-letter framework that boards think about once a year, Neuberger Berman has said.

People Moves, 27 October: M&G, Impax, Deutsche Bank, Summa Equity and more

Investors 'trapped in quandary over whether 1.5°C is achievable'

Investors are "trapped" in a quandary of working towards targets based on keeping warming to 1.5°C, while confidence evaporates that countries and companies are reducing emissions at a fast enough rate to do so, an asset owner has warned.

'Little correlation' between funds with sustainability labels and SFDR ambition

There is little correlation between funds that attain labels to prove their sustainability credentials and those that self-categorise as 'Article 9' funds under the most ambitious category of the EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), according to Novethic.

Loan round-up: Trafigura, Verde Agritech, Nexa Resources ... and more

Sustainable bond market will become 'too large to ignore' for US issuers

Despite a surprisingly lacklustre US sustainable bond issuance response to the massive climate-focused Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) stimulus package, a green bond investor argues that "problem" of cautious US issuers will soon "take care of itself" as the market grows.

Ninety One: Transition perpetuating 'climate colonialism'

Efforts to encourage emerging markets to transition often perpetuate "climate colonialism" and set "uneven goalposts", Ninety One has told Environmental Finance.

Tackle greenwashing or face regulation, Swiss government challenges industry

The Swiss government has threatened to introduce regulation to tackle greenwashing among financial institutions unless the industry can show it can address the issue itself.