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NatWest launches Carbon Tracker app pilot now for SMEs

Following its successful carbon footprint tracking for consumers last year.

Robeco's climate survey shows continued momentum on climate change

The survey covers 300 of the world’s largest institutional and wholesale investors in Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific

Green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds: Trends for 2022

In 2021, we saw the sustainability-linked bonds (SLB) market gaining traction with EUR 91 billion worth of SLBs issued in 2021

Two challenges, many solutions for investors: where biodiversity protection meets decarbonisation

Sometimes called nature-based solutions, or natural climate solutions, such strategies aim to jointly address the climate and biodiversity crises by assessing the effects that policies applied in one area are likely to have in the other.

CELEBRATING WORLD WATER DAY 2022

Contaminated soil and aquifers can be remediated.

Federated Hermes teams up with the Natural History Museum for new biodiversity fund

Will use the Museum’s Biodiversity Trends Explorer

Marsh launches new ESG tool

Liberty Mutual Insurance to provide its clients with ESG-related risk advisory services

Showing leadership in sustainable finance through climate transparency

The recent IPCC report urges us to redouble our efforts in the area of sustainable finance in order to support the economic transition.

HSBC announces net zero steps

The bank’s plans will only be achieved in partnership with our clients, by financing the change to their business models and technologies in order to lower their greenhouse gas emissions.

Advisers still not confident on having ESG conversations

Embark said the financial advice industry has work to do to truly understand clients’ ESG needs.

IOSCO targets greenwashers

At its meeting on 9 March, the Board stressed the importance of mitigating greenwashing and doing what is necessary to create reliable information on sustainability impacts for investors.

Apex Group leads financial services industry by offsetting lifetime carbon emissions

Apex is a signatory of the Principles of Responsible Investment and a member of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative.

ESG Frameworks: An Overview

The efforts of these organizations have shaped the landscape of current ESG reporting

Leading European Bank expands client offering through DIFC

Reinforces its regional expansion strategy with license upgrade, reflecting its optimism in the region

Climate philanthropy: a guide to green giving

Executive Director of the Coutts Institute Rachel Harrington and Florence Miller, Director of the Environmental Funders Network discuss the basics of "green giving" – where to start, how to find a meaningful cause, and why billionaires alo

CaixaBank joins BNP Paribas circular economy initiative

Based on the principles of the circular economy, this solution also supports organisations seeking to decarbonise their operations as part of the net zero transition.

EBA publishes report on green securitisations

This report is one of several regulatory works that are currently being developed in the area of sustainable securitisations, which also include the EBA Report on the prudential treatment of ESG exposure.

More than 680 financial institutions with US$130+ trillion in assets call on nearly 10,400 companies to disclose environmental data through CDP

Companies being asked to disclose by these institutions include over 3,300 companies that are being requested for the first time

UK set to miss net zero targets, reports conclude

The Lords called for the “urgent establishment” of a ‘transformation taskforce’ within government to set out a clear roadmap for the development and implementation of energy policies, and act as a coordinator and monitor of progres

Europe’s energy shock driven by the conflict in Ukraine

Europe is exposed to rising global oil prices as it is a highly fungible market.

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