November 2020

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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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The French Directorate-General of the Treasury handed a report to the Parliament on a climate strategy for public export financing last October. Through amendments to the 2021...

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The Covid-19 pandemic and widespread lockdown measures have severely slowed down the economies of many countries around the world. European real GDP is now projected to contrac...

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Etihad Airways, the second flag carrier of the UAE, has launched the world’s first Transition Sukuk and the first sustainability-linked bond in aviation, under their Transiti...

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On November 20, 2020 the European Commission published the long-awaited Draft Delegated Act under the Taxonomy Regulation[1], on climate change mitigation and climate change a...

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In November, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak made numerous announcements related to sustainable finance, as part of the UK’s plan to bolster the dynamism, open...

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From a sustainability standpoint, the past few weeks saw major developments in the energy sector with Engie halting talks with US LG developer NextDecade over a 20-year supply ...