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Video: Lisa Bozzelli on the opportunities for real estate and asset backed securities

COP27: UK's guidance on gold standard transition plans 'to have global significance'

Proposed guidance for producing 'gold standard' transition plans has been described by EY as "an extremely important step in the right direction towards driving the UK towards a net zero future".

Singapore considers ground-breaking foreign currency green bond

Singapore will consider issuing its first ever foreign currency sovereign bond in green bond format amid interest from investors, but only after building out its Singaporean dollar green bond curve.

COP27: Investor alliance spurs Indonesian deforestation action

The Investor Policy Dialogue on Deforestation (IPDD) has helped create a sustainability partnership with key financial actors in Indonesia that it is claimed could prevent the destruction of forests.

COP27: ISSB hails 'milestone' CDP, NZDPU tie-ups

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) hailed "key milestone" agreements with the CDP and Net Zero Data Public Utility (NZDPU) it said will boost implementation of its standards.

Video: Lee White shares the latest ISSB updates

Lee White, executive director at the IFRS Foundation, shares the latest ISSB updates in this interview at Environmental Finance's ESG Data 2022 conference in London

Video: Alessia Falsarone on the importance of bondholder engagement

Alessia Falsarone, head of sustainable investing portfolio strategy at Pineridge Investments, shares her view on the importance of bondholder engagement.

Investors urged to vote against Sembcorp coal plant deal

The financial engineering behind Sembcorp's proposed sale of two coal-fired plants means the transaction is a "quick and dirty solution" to decarbonisation, and highlights the weaknesses of some sustainability-linked bond (SLB) structures, a think-tank has argued.

AI data providers 'not there yet' for sustainable bond data solutions

The technology behind artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) is not currently capable of providing investors with the tools they need to "meaningfully and quickly" extract data...

COP27: New investors join deforestation alliance

Institutions including asset manager GAM Investments have joined Finance Sector Deforestation Action (FSDA) initiative as COP27 kicks off in Egypt.