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    EU Regulators Propose Shake-Up of Sustainable Investment Labels

    2024-06-18

    U.S. News: European Union regulators proposed sweeping changes to the bloc's rules on labelling sustainable investments, to give investors simpler and clearer information and to stop "greenwashing" risks.

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    Just 40% of High Emitting Firms Disclose Impacts of Decarbonisation Actions

    2024-06-17

    Funds Europe: Only 40% of high emitting companies disclose and quantify the impacts of their decarbonisation actions, a study has found.

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    Brookfield, Alterra Launch $5 Billion Emerging Markets Climate Transition Fund

    2024-06-14

    ESG Today: Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) and UAE-backed climate investment platform ALTÉRRA announced the launch of the Catalytic Transition Fund, aimed at directing capital into clean energy and transition assets in underserved emerging economies.

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    BlackRock Launches Climate Transition ETF Range

    2024-06-13

    ETF Stream: BlackRock has unveiled a five-strong climate transition ETF range. The ETFs aim to ‘provide access to companies leading in the transition to a low carbon economy.’

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    UBS Seeks Expansion in Corner of ESG Targeted by Credit Suisse

    2024-06-12

    BNN Bloomberg: UBS Group AG just held its first-ever conference dedicated to the ESG theme of biodiversity, signaling its ambitions to grow in a business area that Credit Suisse had targeted for expansion before its collapse.

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    KPMG: Just 29% of Companies Are Ready For ESG Data Verification

    2024-06-12

    Portfolio Advisor: Despite looming regulatory deadlines to report on ESG, just 29% of companies feel ready to have their ESG data independently verified, up only a fraction from nine months ago, according to research from KPMG.

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    What Corporate Finance Teams Should Know About SBTi’s New Financial Sector Guidance

    2024-06-12

    GreenBiz: The Science Based Targets initiative will requires banks and other financial institutions setting science-based targets for emissions reductions to phase out most coal-related activities by 2030 and publicly declare when they’ll stop financing companies and projects that don’t align with the Paris Agreement goal to hold global temperature increases under 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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    The Big ESG meltdown: Amid Allegations of Greenwashing and Record Fund Exits, Can ESG Be Saved?

    2024-06-11

    MSN: On March 26, 2024, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink caused quite a stir. His annual chairman’s letter to investors was in the news for what it did not have. Conspicuous by its absence was the mention of the term ESG (environment, social, and governance).

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    GOP Report Blasts Wall Street Firms Over Climate, Alleging ‘Collusion’

    2024-06-11

    Yahoo News: House Republicans are blasting Wall Street firms over climate-minded investing, the latest flare in the party’s criticism over environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing.

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    'Summer of Heat on Wall Street' Climate Activists Target Citigroup in Lower Manhattan

    2024-06-10

    ABC: The first of four days of climate activists making their voices heard kicked off in Manhattan. The activists call the shutdowns "The Summer of Heat on Wall Street." They say it's a months-long campaign to hold protests to push Wall Street to stop funding oil, coal, and gas.

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