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FSA flags issues with climate risk pilot

Financial institutions need to enhance the methodology behind pilot scenario analysis, Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has said.

Hydrogen-focussed energy transition fund raises €3bn

A fund that will invest in clean hydrogen projects to help hard-to-abate sectors lower their emissions has raised €3 billion in an oversubscribed final offering.

Affirmative to be integrated into MetLife following acquisition

Sustainability bonds specialist Affirmative Investment Management (AIM) has been bought by the asset management arm of US insurer MetLife and will be integrated into its new owner.

Sustainability disclosure initiatives are still fragmented, warn PRI, WBCSD, IFAC

Draft sustainability standards and initiatives "are not technically compatible", many of the world's biggest companies, investors and professional accounting firms have warned.

Rebuttable presumptions rebutted in comment letters to EFRAG

Concerns over the rebuttable presumptions approach to reporting in the draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) diluting the quality of reporting and overburdening entities...

Singapore lets firms pay carbon taxes with Gold Standard credits

Singapore-based companies will be allowed to buy Gold Standard carbon credits to meet part of their carbon tax obligations.

HSBC and Temasek launch sustainable loan company

HSBC and Temasek have launched Pentagreen Capital - a debt financing company for sustainable infrastructure projects, with an initial focus on Southeast Asia.

Chinese firms 'must improve ESG' in APAC listing pivot from US

Chinese companies delisting from the US may need to improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) approach if they wish to shift their secondary listing to Hong Kong or Singapore...