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Natixis Green & Sustainable Hub just launched a survey to capture investors' expectations regarding the ways Public Development Banks (PDBs) should address the United Nation’s...
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In July 2021, the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance[1] (GSIA) published its fifth Global Sustainable Investment Review (GSIR) biennial report[2]. GSIA was founded back in 2010...
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The Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Régulation (ACPR), the French banking and insurance supervisory body, released early May the results of its first pilot climate stress te...
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The year 2020 has witnessed a new record in terms of green funds growth as documented by two recently released reports by Environmental Finance and Novethic. The peak is of course ...
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The Climate Action 100+ (CA 100+) initiative has released its latest 2020 progress report on the actions undertaken by high-emitting industries, such as aviation, in order to reduc...
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Mid-February the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) announced the expansion of its Sustainable Bond Market by creating a so-called Transition Bond Sub-Segment, which is not defined...
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The Sustainability-linked Bonds market undergoes a stepwise growth with 20 transactions totalling $8 billion of issuances in 2021 already. Is this the beginning of an exponential g...
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The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA), the Loan Market Association (LMA), together with the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), have released a joint guidance ...
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With the publication of its “Draft 2025 Target Setting Protocol”, the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance (NZAOA) provides a useful tool in the journey to fulfill its members’ commitme...
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In the wake of the Paris Agreement, a number of investors have made commitments to align their portfolios to net zero carbon goals. Several methodologies have emerged in the recent...
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Following last year devasting fires in the Amazon, there has been a growth in actions to halt deforestation among institutional investors, who are becoming increasingly aware of h...
As ESG investments are becoming mainstream, the market of impact investing is getting increasingly structured. Two recent initiatives have been set up recently to support impact data industrializa...
The Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance (NZAOA) recently issued a call for comment to respond to the urgent need to align carbon neutrality methodologies.
Launched in early 2019, the NZAOA gathers a s...
The sanitary Covid-19 crisis has affected, since its start, all parts of the economy, and financial markets. A response to the Covid-19 crisis is arising from the world of sustainable finance from...
The interest in quantitative indicators capturing biodiversity metrics is growing rapidly among regulators and investors. These indicators can be used to measure the ill estimated environmental im...
New York City Pension Funds go for fossil fuel divestment whereas New York State Common Retirement Fund goes for climate-themed investments: two different but complementary approaches.
On the one...
The aviation industry has been under growing scrutiny from public opinion because of the carbon footprint of its operations which grew globally at an annual rate of 2.8% between 2008 and 2018 acco...
