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Time to Face our Challenges Head-on

Chris Hall

The answers to these questions will be shaped by the regulatory requirements faced by investors, including their fiduciary duties, their disclosure requirements, and the need to avoid greenwashing.

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Corporate Decarbonization, Supportive Policy to Drive 2023 Rebound in Sustainable Bond Market: Moody’s

ESG Today

Issuance volumes for SLBs were particularly weak in the second half of the year, as issuers faced scrutiny of the credibility and robustness of their linked sustainability targets, as well as the sector’s exposure to high-yield issuance. A more supportive policy environment, such as the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S.

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Sustainable Bond Market Rebounds, Resuming Double Digit Growth: Moody’s

ESG Today

Issuance volumes of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds rebounded strongly in Q1 2023, resuming double-digit growth trends after falling 18% in 2022, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service. trillion in 2021.

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UK Green Labels to Raise Fund Standards

Chris Hall

Protected status for ESG investment products could mark the beginning of the end for greenwashing for UK investors. Before long, any asset manager thinking of slapping a ‘sustainable’ or ‘ESG’ label on its investment products for UK clients should think twice – at least. It thinks there is a problem about greenwashing.”.

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A Measured Approach

Chris Hall

Before the end of the year, it will publish a price for carbon emissions, which Cohen hopes will put an end to one of the many hot and increasingly political debates surrounding the net zero transition. There are lots of prices for the cost of polluting the atmosphere by emitting more CO2.

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Engagement Drives Growth in Australian Responsible Investment

Chris Hall

Responsible investment opportunities received a further boost earlier this year with the election of a new government committed to transitioning Australia toward a low-carbon economy in line with an accelerated net zero pathway. which has now been approved by federal parliament. Thematic variations.

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Putin Puts Governance Back on the Agenda

Chris Hall

Further, the shortcomings of Europe’s renewable energy directive will be debated more urgently, as energy security concerns combine with net zero targets. As some noted , legislative momentum on sustainability and climate was already slowing, just 100 days after COP26.

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