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New Climate Rules and Guidance for UK Pensions

Chris Hall

This followed the final report of the Productive Finance Working Group, formed by HM Treasury, the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority to encourage more investment in long-term less-liquid assets, widely seen as offering a wider range options for investors looking to support the low-carbon transition.

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Bridging Asia’s ESG Information Gap

Chris Hall

This, coupled with a nascent taxonomy process, makes investors even more than usually vulnerable to greenwashing. . Different asset managers and banks require different types of data or different granularities of the data, and this creates a reporting, collation and operational burden on companies. .

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Keeping Up with the Neighbours 

Chris Hall

A person close to the Australian Treasury understands that the ‘Finance Agenda’ consultation is likely to include disclosures, taxonomy, transition planning and greenwashing, including financial product labelling. Parker from RIAA welcomes the potential for a product labelling system in Australia.