All green finance articles
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NewsTransition Plan Taskforce extends mandate to ensure high-integrity transition finance goals
TPT’s newly-launched review will consider what the UK needs to do to become a leading hub for transition financial services
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NewsEx-BlackRock research head: ESG’s ‘biggest sin’ is conflating finance, impact and ethics
Comments come as GAM’s sustainability chief says leaders have gone ‘very close to as far as they can go’ under current system
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NewsFinancial institutions failing to integrate nature and climate, warns CDP
New report says most FIs lack governance mechanisms and board-level expertise
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NewsMore clarification on fiduciary duty for pension scheme trustees needed, says UKSIF
UKSIF recommended that relevant government departments issue guidance for UK occupational pension schemes on a statutory or non-statutory basis
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NewsISO launches sustainable finance standard
The British Standards Institute (BSI) – developing the new guidance – has committed to embed climate science into every new or revised standard it creates
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NewsUK competition authority says fossil boycotts don’t contravene rules
The guidance outlines the kind of green agreements that are acceptable under current competition law
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Hundreds of climate targets submitted ahead of COP27, says Mark Carney
GFANZ received over 250 science-based interim targets with an additional 90 targets under review
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NewsAdvisory group finalises ‘beyond green’ taxonomy recommendation
European Commission will have to make final decision on whether to pursue broadening scope, and how
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UK government urged to consult LGPS pools for domestic infra boost bid
‘Onus on government to invite leading UK pension funds to the consultation table,’ says Brunel CIO
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NewsBoE sets out CBPS greening options after net-zero remit update
Central bank proposes balance sheet use be to prod ‘decisive’ net-zero action
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New group to assess effectiveness of sustainable finance policy
Initiators say it is not clear which regulatory actions are most effective in aligning finance with sustainability goals
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UK asset manager body sets out key asks for government’s green bonds
’Government may wish to consider application of EU taxonomy’s ‘do no significant harm’ principle,’ IA says
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NewsFCA develops principles to tackle greenwashing concerns
UK regulator to shortly start discussing principles with industry
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LGPS TCFD consultation among myriad UK green finance plans
Chancellor announces mandatory TCFD reporting, green bond, green taxonomy plans
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Carney lays down investor portfolio alignment metric challenge
‘Say on transition’, mandatory TCFD disclosure calls also feature in speech about the private finance agenda for COP26
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‘Biodiversity finance’ pledge launched, TNFD efforts ‘pass milestone’
Biodiversity finance ‘the new frontier’
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ICMA issues definitions in sustainable finance terminology move
Association flags problematic use of some terms ‘as if they were interchangeable’
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NewsAsset owners offered EU taxonomy ‘compliance pre-screening’ tool
Impact-Cubed tool to help investors prepare for disclosure requirements
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NewsCheers and concerns over DWP climate amendments to pension bill
PLSA urges government to redraft amendments
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Investing in green doesn’t equal greening the world
Financial products and services marketed as green must make a clear and measurable difference to the transition to environmental sustainability, argues Ben Caldecott.
