All articles by Elisabeth Jeffries – Page 2
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Asset Class Reports
Credit: EU raises the green bond stakes
The EU is considering making its Green Bond Standard mandatory
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FeaturesBriefing: EU strengthens rules on green disclosure
Investment firms need to familiarise themselves with a range of new environmental issues to prepare for a European Union law aimed at consistent environmental disclosures that also support investment decisions on environmental sustainability.
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Special ReportSpatial finance: A data-driven perspective on industrial output
Artificial intelligence-enabled spatial finance data could help overcome poor and lagging data disclosure by listed and private companies
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Special ReportBlended finance: Catalytic capital
Three examples show how innovative structures can mobilise institutional capital alongside development banks in high-impact emerging-economy projects
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Special ReportBanks face scrutiny on carbon exposure
The 60 global lenders in the Net Zero Banking Alliance must present emissions targets by autumn 2022
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Special ReportEU sustainable finance: Pushing the green envelope
How the industry is reacting to the European Commission’s sustainability proposals – including green taxonomy extension, a social taxonomy and hard targets for asset management to decarbonise
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Features
Briefing: France decrees biodiversity reporting
France, having pioneered mandatory climate-risk reporting by investment firms, again breaks new ground by requiring biodiversity reporting in the same sector.
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Special ReportSocial enterprises: Social return guaranteed
The European Social Innovation and Impact Fund is a pioneer in social enterprise finance
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Special ReportImpact bonds: Clipping the impact coupon
High risk, costs and complexity have hindered the development of impact bonds. Could this be about to change?
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Special ReportNon-Financial Reporting Directive: ESG reporting upgrade
The EU has responded to calls for improved environmental-impact reporting standards
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Special ReportSustainability-linked bonds: More bonds to ease climate transition
Bank of China is the first large middle-income economy to issue transition bonds based on ICMA guidelines
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Special ReportPandemic booster shot for social bonds
Social bond issuance rockets in reaction to the coronavirus
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Special Report
Reporting: Leader and laggard
A comparison between Exxon Mobil Corporation’s and Equinor’s climate reporting shows marked differences
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Special Report
The letter but not the spirit in emissions reporting
Much of the corporate reporting on emissions reduction is short on detail about how targets will be achieved
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Special ReportEU sustainable finance: Commission renews green vows
The EU is proposing a taxonomy for non-sustainable industries following the publication of the green taxonomy last year
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Special ReportEU sustainable finance: Tentative steps on green classification
The first investors are already applying the EU’s green taxonomy but there are questions about the applicability of the Ecolabel to ESG funds
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Special ReportImpact principles: Held to account
How will the IFC’s impact investment principles help investors seeking transparency and clarity about their investments?
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Special ReportClimate benchmarks: Brown to green
Brown to green - Index providers are making the first steps towards adoption of the new EU climate benchmarks
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NewsImpact Investing Institute to launch programme to woo pension funds
Pension savers show strong desire for sustainable investments
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Special ReportRisk metrics jigsaw
Moves to promote useful climate risk disclosure among companies are hampered by highly variable risk metrics and a lack of cohesive standards
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