Sustainability – Page 17
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NewsNBIM devises corporate disclosure set around online risks for children
Norwegian SWF manager works with UNICEF to highlight companies’ impact on children’s rights through their digital activities
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NewsWill sovereign SLBs help investors ‘contractualise the climate transition’?
Bond investors are engaging with governments on upcoming revisions to their NDCs, but can SLBs hold them accountable?
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NewsGSAM to exit Climate Action 100+
Other major players to have departed the collaborative investor engagement initiative this year include Invesco, JPMAM and SSGA
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NewsClimate NGO’s net-zero test for fossil fuel reserves included in FCA consultation
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has included Carbon Tracker and ClientEarths’ proposal for an ‘atmospheric viability test’ on fossil fuel reserves.
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NewsISSB members clear staff to work on further changes to SASB sustainability reporting rules
The development came after board members expressed their broad support for a proposal to enhance the reporting rulebook
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NewsMorningstar proxy season analysis: ESG shareholder resolution growth primarily driven by ‘anti-ESG’ proponents
Overall support for ESG proposals stayed flat in 2024 at 23%, with a marked rise in anti-ESG resolutions.
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NewsBiodiversity foundation sets ambitious nature targets for investors
The guide has been developed in alignment with key initiatives on nature and climate change, including the TNFD, SBTN, and UNEP FI
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NewsIA calls for improvement in analysis of climate-related risks and opportunities
The report outlines the Investment Association’s plans to galvanise effective policymaking to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy.
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NewsIASB proposes illustrative examples to improve climate-related reporting
The proposals come in response to strong demand from investors who have complained that companies often fail to back up climate-related statements
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NewsISSB, EU achieve high degree of interoperability in sustainability reporting
Sue Lloyd, ISSB chair, says that the ISSB, EFRAG and the European Commission ‘have collaborated to achieve a high degree of alignment’
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NewsICSWG launches workstream to enhance sustainable investment practices
Regulations have unintentionally led many trustees to spend most of their sustainability time and budgets on compliance-focused activities, says group
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NewsBaFin changes supervisory practice following ESMA’s fund names guidelines
ESMA’s guidelines will ‘completely replace’ BaFin’s old supervisory approach, says BaFin’s Thorsten Pötzsch
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Are sustainability standards a distraction?
The debate about standardised reporting of Scope 3 emissions loses sight of an important point about the need for judgment, says Iancu Daramus
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AnalysisIPE Netherlands Briefing: Dutch insurers eye more buyouts
Plus: PMT’s ESG exclusion framework and PGGM’s DEI pledge
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NewsItalian vets scheme picks bfinance to design sustainable investment policy
Enpav’s investment strategy has so far lacked the integration of ESG criteria
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NewsICGN sets out investor sustainability assurance expectations
The corporate governance group has called on national regulators to adopt upcoming IAASB and IESBA sustainability assurance standards
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NewsISSB vice-chair rules out changes to its sustainability rules
“We’re not in the market for collecting suggestions for amendments to brand new standards”, says Sue Lloyd
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NewsWiltshire Pension Fund appoints LOIM, Barnett Waddingham
The scheme will invest £75m in LOIM’s Planetary Transition strategy
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NewsNGOs announce ‘independent, science-backed’ taxonomy to raise EU game
New platform ‘not intended as critique of EU taxonomy’
