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MSCI launches carbon transition indexes
21 June 2019Data provider MSCI has launched a new series of ‘low-carbon transition’ indexes, as it extends its range of climate change-focused indexes.
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Impact investors say AUM soared 86% over four years
21 June 2019Impact investors have seen their assets under management increase by 86% over the past four years, a survey of the market suggests.
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Exxon and other laggards excluded from LGIM Future World Funds
21 June 2019Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has excluded more climate change laggards from its Future World Funds range after they failed to respond to its engagement programme.
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People Moves: Nature Conservancy, UBS, Premier Asset Management, AP6, LuxFLAG
21 June 2019NGO the Nature Conservancy has announced board directors and leadership members.
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Bank of England to stress test UK’s financial system by 2021
21 June 2019The Bank of England will by 2021 conduct a stress test of the UK financial system for resilience to the financial risks posed by climate change, Mark Carney has revealed.
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Central banks 'to turn to green QE'
21 June 2019Central banks could turn to "green quantitative easing" (QE) as part of their increasingly active response to climate change, a panellist at Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income 2019 conference argued.
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Germany’s Dürr claims first ESG-linked Schuldschein
20 June 2019German engineering group Dürr has raised €200 million ($224 million) from an innovative Schuldschein whose coupon will vary according to the company’s sustainability rating.
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Bond round-up: Chile, Korea, Engie, CDC, Vattenfall, BayWa, RATP … and more
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EU's non-binding guidelines adopt TCFD framework
19 June 2019New EU guidelines on corporate climate-related reporting have integrated the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), and signal a growing alignment for the disclosure regime globally.
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Green and sustainability-linked loan market breaks $100bn barrier
19 June 2019The combined total of all green and sustainability-linked loans issued to date has reached about $111.5 billion, according to figures compiled by Environmental Finance.
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- ISSB to work on biodiversity disclosures
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- Governments urged to make nature transition plans mandatory
- Comment: Are we finally ready to have a grown-up conversation about the transition?
- Article 6 and CORSIA: preparing for compliance
- Decline of Article 9 funds nearing end and Article 8 continues to soar, Barclays finds
- Transition bond label is a 'distraction' for transition finance, says MetLife IM
- BlackRock and Temasek's Decarbonization Partners closes debut fund at $1.4bn