April 30, 2021
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said the US is ready to rejoin the fight against climate change “after sitting on the sidelines for four years”.
Yellen gave her backing to climate change initiatives such …
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April 23 2021
The financial services sector needs to “rethink our prescriptive approach” to environmental and societal problems, according to a leading US regulator.
Hester Peirce, a commissioner at the Securities and …
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The Charity Commission has re-issued guidance to charity trustees to end confusion over expectations for ethical or responsible investment.
Charity trustees had raised concerns over the clarity of the commission’s existing rules. Some said their overriding legal duty was …
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President Joe Biden will order US financial firms to disclose the climate-change risks of their investments, adding to the wave of global regulation on climate and investment.
The plan was announced on 7 April by US climate envoy John Kerry. …
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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has warned trustees to act to meet new climate change regulations and warned it could take enforcement action against funds that failed to comply with their obligations.…
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ESG regulation is once again at the heart of legislative tensions in the US Senate as Republicans and Democrats lock horns over the recently ESG Enforcement Task Force. Democrat legislators …
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Forty-three new fund groups have signed up to the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, which commits signatories to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Launched …
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The countdown to festivals finally reopening this summer after lockdown has begun, but investors and financial services professionals are in …
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The environmental, social and governance (ESG) debate is quickly gaining momentum at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under President Biden’s administration.…
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In a bid to fast forward convergence in global sustainability reporting standards, the trustees of the IFRS Foundation have set up a working group.
The group …
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