10 December, 2019
European agreement on sustainable business taxonomy divides opinion
European institutions have taken a step closer to agreeing definitions of what constitutes green business activity. The end of last week saw the commission president and the European Parliament rea...
9 December, 2019
Designing a suitable taxonomy for a sustainable future
The Sustainable Finance Action Plan is a milestone of the EU policy on issues relating to ESG and adaptation to climate change. A number of legislative proposals have accompanied the action plan in or...
23 October, 2019
Investors believe companies are ‘falling short’ on climate reporting
The pressure on companies to disclose more information about their climate-related issues was stepped up this week with a report from a UK watchdog revealing investor disappointment about the current ...
23 October, 2019
TCFD summit confirms climate risk should be your board’s priority
The recent global summit of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) made it clear that companies will increasingly be subject to challenge on management of climate risk by regula...
11 October, 2019
Better data and consolidated standards needed to drive ESG investing
When investors and their advisers gather there is a single recurring theme that arises again and again: environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. So it was in Paris this week as the gre...
8 October, 2019
Mark Carney predicts more action on climate-related risk disclosures
The pressure on companies to provide more and higher quality climate-related risk disclosures is only going to increase, according to the governor of the Bank of England.
30 September, 2019
Sasja Beslik: global finance industry ‘is the key to a sustainable future’
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25 September, 2019
PRI policy chief warns that capital markets ‘remain unsustainable’
“We haven’t yet seen the transition necessary,” says Will Martindale, head of policy and research at campaign group Pri...
13 September, 2019
PRI report reveals global shift to national sustainable finance policies
The world’s 50 largest economies have put in place more than 500 policy instruments and 730 hard and soft law revisions to back investors in using “long-term value drivers”, including ESG factor...
26 October, 2018
