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March 8, 2022
How SDG impact standards can help boards
Where ESG labels fail, standards designed by the UN Development Programme around its sustainable development goals may guide business in the right direction, says Panama's...
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March 1, 2022
War, risk and ESG
Anyone serious about sustainable finance should consider the invasion of Ukraine as a wake-up call, says Evgueni Ivantsov. Russian president Vladimir Putin’s military aggression against...
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February 28, 2022
EU adviser group publishes its social taxonomy report
The EU social taxonomy aims to create a workable classification for companies and investors. Coupled with legislation prescribing fines for businesses with poor human rights...
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February 24, 2022
What you should know about ESG data and ratings
Rating agencies' valuations of sustainability factors have yet to offer meaningful guidance, and research shows their application strips investors' ESG preferences of any impact on...
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February 10, 2022
How regenerative farming policy will change markets
As governments revise agricultural rules and supermarkets look at more sustainable supply chains, new opportunities emerge for investors Agriculture is often identified as one of...
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January 27, 2022
Next steps for ISSB and ESG disclosures
As accounting standards-setter IFRS’s International Sustainability Standards Board works on creating a new ESG reporting framework that is as widely accepted – and as widely...
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January 27, 2022
Supply chain risks and ESG compliance
The introduction of a compliance-related approach to financial crime enforcement, where liability may be triggered by actions far down a supply chain, will likely be applied to ESG concerns too...
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January 18, 2022
Carbon capture 'one quarter of the decarbonisation cake'
Climeworks’ co-CEO Jan Wurzbacher on how the world is running out of energy options Alongside the widespread focus on the decarbonisation of industry sits the carbon removal project, whereby existing...
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December 15, 2021
Enel: zero emissions and fully 'electrified' by 2040
The multinational energy group does not believe in offsetting and plans to get all its business and retail customers to abandon gas as it aims to cut emissions to zero...
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December 15, 2021
Bond investors risk missing out on transition to low carbon
Lack of standards puts transition finance at risk, and keeps bond investors out of new and useful market Most sectors must undergo a major transformation to align with a 1.5-degree...
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December 8, 2021
Sustainable investment is a ‘first-world’ option
Despite some progress, the work around defining and improving sustainable investment ignores developing markets’ reality Even in the midst of a global pandemic, sustainable investing is taking a victory lap...
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