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• Put climate risk in insurers' capital requirements, MEPs told

  23 March 2022

  Climate risks should be explicitly dealt with in the pillar 1 (capital requirements) element of Solvency II insurance regulation, not left to pillar 2 (risk management), MEPs have been told.

• S&P: ESG scoring must consider overall impact

  22 March 2022

  An environmental, social and governance (ESG) score must measure a company's overall impact on society if it is to meet the "basic principles" of ESG investing, S&P Global has argued.

• Free sustainability-linked bond and loan metrics report published

  22 March 2022

  The Environmental Finance sustainable bond and loan database has published a free report on the major trends among key performance indicators (KPIs)...

• Russian invasion "puts fracking investment back on the agenda"

  22 March 2022

  The Russian invasion will "set us back" on decarbonisation and has put fracking investment back on the agenda, policy experts have warned.

• SEC unveils climate disclosure rules in landmark moment

  22 March 2022

  The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published rules for climate risk disclosures that require information on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through companies' entire value chains and require independent verification, in a landmark moment for financial markets.

• $320m raised for gender equality fund

  21 March 2022

  Impact investor Co-Impact has raised $320 million for its gender equality fund, which aims to raise $1 billion fund over the next ten years.

• Ukraine invasion will lead to food shortages, warns impact investor

  21 March 2022

  Russia's invasion of Ukraine will disrupt the agricultural sector and will lead to food shortages, an impact investor has warned.

• Banks' climate 'analysis paralysis' shameful

  21 March 2022

  The lack of readiness of banks to assess their exposure to climate risks is both alarming and shameful, according to a prominent North American asset manager.

• Amundi: ESG assets face 'crowding risk,' not a 'bubble'

  21 March 2022

  Amundi Asset Management said it is "false" to assert that there is an environmental, social and governance (ESG) asset 'bubble,' despite sustainable assets facing a 'crowding risk'...

• Voluntary carbon market 'is a dying breed'

  21 March 2022

  Kevin Conrad, executive director at the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, sparked controversy over comments the voluntary carbon market (VCM) is a "dying breed" and must "necessarily disappear" if the goals of the Paris Agreement are to be achieved.