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UK Enterprise Fund Helps Nappy Company Clean Up Planet

We feature one of the forward-looking British businesses backed by Coutts clients through an exclusive fund we set up with growth capital investor BGF.

Platforms must help advisers reduce carbon footprints

As a result, companies have had to work harder to improve functionality for advisers.

Another way to create more reliable ESG ratings

From Kevin Ashby, Chairman, EthicsGrade, Oxted, Surrey, UK

Regulatory Considerations for Sustainability-linked Derivatives

Regulatory developments have also occurred outside the EU. In the UK, the Bank of England has adopted a pioneering climate financial risk policy

Germany extends support for climate protection, reduced deforestation

During earlier phases of the project from 2009 to 2019, Laos made tangible progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals especially with respect to the mitigation of climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the land use and

Not so much black swan year as a black cygnet

An alternative asset class that truly sprang into its own during the past year is private debt.

EIB supports Ercros' innovation, decarbonisation and modernisation strategy with €40 million

These investments are framed within the strategic 3D Plan that Ercros has launched for the period 2021-2025.

$4.5 Billion Climate Emergency Response Fund – Is It Enough? – Our Seas Our Future

Our entire country requires an overhaul – our transport systems, energy, agriculture, flooding infrastructure.

Climate tech investment more than triples, but is focused on solutions with just 20% of emission reduction potential: PwC study

Climate tech encompasses technologies focused on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Norway wealth fund will pressure, not divest from high gas emitters

Like many other long-term investors, the fund is looking at how to adapt to climate change.

UBP Asset Management (Europe) joins the Race to Zero

Shifting to net zero will be the biggest economic transformation of our time and achieving this goal by mid-century requires an urgent acceleration of current efforts.

FCA extends mandatory climate disclosure requirements

The FCA has acknowledged that there is a balance to be struck on achieving perfect methodologies and disclosures and ‘getting started

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Public Pensions Return to Making Clean Energy Investments

The COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on clean energy investments for asset owners

EU to set up a system to certify carbon removals in 2022

The EU Commission will propose a certification system for carbon removed from the atmosphere next year, it has announced.

LGT and Climeworks sign ten-year CO2 removal agreement

LGT committed to reducing the net emissions of its operations and its own investments to zero by 2030.

BNP Paribas AM boss: How technology and sustainability will transform investing in 2022

Sandro Pierri reflects on the themes that will define asset management over the next year

Eighth meeting of the PRA and FCA’s joint Climate Financial Risk Forum

The Climate Financial Risk Forum met for the eighth time in October 2021.

Qatar takes 10% stake in Rolls-Royce's low-carbon nuclear business

Qatar and Rolls-Royce said last month that they would team up in a multi-billion pound project to develop and invest in green technology start-ups in the UK and the Gulf Arab state.

The role of planning in the fight against climate change

The built environment is a long-standing and major contributor to the carbon emissions driving climate change.

EFG’s 2022 perspectives: Global growth set to continue, inflation to be transitory

Inflation will be the main concern for central banks when setting their monetary policy in the coming year.

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