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• NatWest: Biodiversity-linked sovereign SLBs could be 'powerful'

  27 September 2022

  More sovereign sustainability-linked bond (SLBs) issuances could include targets related to biodiversity or natural capital, to build on growing momentum around the topic, an executive at NatWest bank has said.

• RepRisk & K2 Integrity to offer 'greenwashing' assessment

  27 September 2022

  ESG risk data company RepRisk has partnered with K2 Integrity, a compliance and risk advisory firm, to provide 'greenwashing' analysis for investors complying with new sustainability requirements.

• Mirova launches two sustainable bond funds

  27 September 2022

  Mirova has launched two 'dark green' bond funds.

• UK social impact investments grew 10-fold in a decade

  27 September 2022

  The UK's social impact investments sector has grown nearly 10-fold over 10 years, to reach £7.9 billion ($8.5 billion) in 2021, impact investor Big Society Capital (BSC) has estimated.

• Investors clash on double materiality

  27 September 2022

  Some of the world's largest investors fail to agree on the materiality approach the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) should take in its reporting standards, Morningstar research has revealed.

• Generalist SDG strategies are less impactful, says Axa IM Alts

  26 September 2022

  Sector-specific strategies targeting one or two sustainable development goals (SDGs) are more 'impactful' than 'generalist' funds, said Axa Investment Managers (IM) Alts.

• NZAOA members 'nibbling around' climate emergency

  26 September 2022

  Members of the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) need to do more to tackle their impact on absolute greenhouse gas emissions, including from oil & gas and coal, non-profit Reclaim Finance has said.

• Mirova: We need biodiversity metric for positive impact

  26 September 2022

  Investors need a metric to measure the positive impact of investee companies on biodiversity alongside their negative impacts, an executive at Paris-based firm Mirova has said in the run-up to biodiversity conference COP15.

• Common ground taxonomy 'could boost investment in Chinese bonds'

  26 September 2022

  The Common Ground Taxonomy will help attract more international investors to Chinese offshore bonds, said the Hong Kong Green Finance Association.

• SLB step-ups have almost no correlation with credit quality - Fitch

  26 September 2022

  Sustainable Fitch has found "almost no correlation" between an issuer's credit rating and the typical coupon step-up for sustainability-linked bonds as it recommended greater variation to account for an issuer's credit profile or sustainability ambitions.