As part of a push to improve financial literacy, the Czech consumer credit provider has linked the first ESG loan it has taken out globally – in the Philippines' sustainable debt market – to that goal. Jean Lafontaine, head of funding, treasury, M&A and investor relations, gives the lowdown.
When investors try to flag concerns to Facebook and Twitter about social media-related issues, the two tech giants often respond with stonewalling and obstruction. Google appears little better. Here we set out why.
With reporting on climate goals well under way, lenders are starting to develop targets for the social pillar of their ESG strategies. Financial inclusion and, increasingly, financial health are focus areas.
India’s Adani Group, the world’s largest private developer of fossil fuels, is still securing funding for its Carmichael project in Australia despite investors increasingly withdrawing support and rising negative sentiment against coal. But how long will it be able to do so?
Countries party to the Energy Charter Treaty are under yet more pressure to reform the agreement following the Cop26 climate summit, with Denmark and New Zealand admitting the threat of investor-state lawsuits has hindered their climate policy ambitions.
We take a look back at the ten most popular ESG and sustainability stories of the year among our readers.
As a growing list of governments tap investor demand for sustainable investments, Capital Monitor analysis shows renewable energy is largely ignored by green bond allocations.
A series of forthcoming policy and industry initiatives this year should help banks and asset managers understand and report their impact on nature, but full integration of such risks still looks some way off.
Last year put sustainability accounting and reporting on the map. The next 12 months should see regulators, standard setters and companies taking a closer look at areas like double materiality, Scope 3 emissions and nature-based reporting.
Paris-based NGE raised €500m of sustainability-linked debt, with one of the key performance indicators linked to female representation on construction sites. Executive VP Jean-Sébastien Leoni outlines the company's rationale behind it.
Tokyo wants to become Asia’s top sustainable finance centre by riding the wave of green bond issuance in Japan. That would require a change in the mindset of local investors and an alignment with international norms, not least around its planned taxonomy.
Bankers say clean energy needs more policy stability to secure funding in the face of rising market risks, as more investors cut exposure to fossil fuels – in some cases entirely.
High net worth individuals are increasingly demanding to know precisely how sustainable their portfolios are, but wealth managers have traditionally struggled with the complexity of offering the granular view of ESG metrics such visibility requires. Rodolphe Bocquet of Clarity AI discusses efforts being made to integrate total transparency into one’s models – and the implications of a failure to do so.
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