All articles by Susanna Rust – Page 31
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Commission delays application date for SFDR disclosure rules
‘Length and technical detail’ of Regulatory Technical Standards cited as reason for delay
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NewsGRI ‘first choice’ pick to work on EU sustainability reporting standards
EFRAG task force ‘hopes to find other valuable partners, soon’, says chair
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NewsBig names on board as UK pension fund stewardship body goes live
BT, USS among 28 pension investors to have signed up to government-created council so far
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Major investors join Inevitable Policy Response as strategic partners
BlackRock, GSAM, Nuveen and others to support IPR financially and provide input on substance
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Brunel, FTSE Russell announce co-developed Paris-aligned benchmarks
LGPS asset pool calls on investors to quickly make use of new indices
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NewsNet zero asset owners tackle carbon pricing in pre-summit paper
Asset owner proposals published as Net Zero Asset Manager initiative gains 41 further signatories
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NewsTPR consults on guidance, penalties for new climate regs
UK pensions regulator determined to drive positive change in behaviour
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‘Naming parameters’ among ideas in IOSCO anti-greenwash consult
Consultation report identifies possible types, and examples, of greenwashing
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NewsLCH, Insight moves make cleared repo accessible to more schemes
Cleared repo brings new sources of liquidity
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NewsUK reveals plan for economy-wide climate impact reporting regime
Government says ‘Sustainability Disclosure Requirements’ to cover corporates, financial services firms, and pension schemes
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NewsLifesight commits to halving portfolio emissions by 2030, then net-zero
Master trust targeting consistency with IIGCC net-zero investment framework
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NewsBlackRock: SDGs not just for impact-oriented allocations
Asset manager explores UN-backed goals through financial materiality lens and finds significant overlap with SASB indicators
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NewsAnalysis on ‘double materiality’ in pensions framework part of new EC strategy
In leaked sustainable finance documents EC says dual perspective key for financial sector contribution to sustainability goals
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New sovereign impact scoring model ‘removes wealth bias’
Impact Cubed model sees its pathway approach removing wealth bias found in traditional ESG sovereign scores
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Gabellieri stepping down as secretary general of AEIP
Brigitte Pisa and Katja Bjerstedt, nominated by Agirc-Arrco and TELA, respectively, have been appointed president and vice-president for the next two-year term
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FeaturesBriefing - Energy: IEA sets net-zero target
The energy sector is the source of about three-quarters of greenhouse gas emissions at present and yet until only recently, the influential International Energy Agency (IEA), an inter-governmental group, had not produced a fully-fledged aligned pathway with the goal of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
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Opinion PiecesESG: progress but still much road to travel
Good things are happening in the land of ESG. Aspects of the European Commission’s sustainable finance action plan regulation have certainly been frustrating, but the sustainable finance disclosure regulation (SFDR), for example, does look like it could end up having a beneficial effect, even though there are still problems associated with it and the effect is perhaps not the one that was envisaged for the SFDR.
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NEST says gender-neutral language drew women as analytics interns
Auto-enrolment pension scheme looking to build a data community and open the data analytics field to women
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French pharmacists fund extends member lending initiative
‘InterPharmaciens’ funds aim to provide financial assistance to pharmacists wanting to set up shop on their own
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NewsEIOPA presents first-time paper on methodology for IORP stress tests
Dicussion paper includes section on introduction of stress-testing of environmental risks
