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    ESMA Recommends Sustainability Disclosure Requirements for All Financial Products

    2024-07-25

    ESG Today: EU markets regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced the publication of its “Opinion on the Sustainable Finance Regulatory Framework,” setting out a series of key recommendations aimed at facilitating investor access to sustainable investments and supporting the financing of the transition to a sustainable economy.

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    How Corporate Advocacy Helped Secure The EU’s New Nature Restoration Law

    2024-07-25

    GreenBiz: The European Union’s Nature Restoration Law, a landmark piece of legislation that requires restoring 20 percent of the continent’s land and marine ecosystems by 2030 and paves the way for broader restoration for the long-term recovery of nature in the region, was passed in June.

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    Brookfield Renewable Issues C$400 Million Green Bonds to Fund Sustainable Investments

    2024-07-24

    ESG News: Brookfield Renewable (NYSE: BEP, BEPC; TSX: BEP.UN, BEPC) has announced a major step in its green financing efforts with the issuance of C$400 million in medium-term notes.

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    Switching to Sustainable Funds Offers Minimal Risk Impact: Study

    2024-07-24

    Funds Europe: Investors in Europe and Asia can transition to sustainable options with minimal impact on their portfolio exposures, according to a Morningstar research. Key takeaways from the report include insights into the limited growth bias of both active and passive sustainable strategies relative to their conventional peers.

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    How CFOs Can Overcome ESG Reporting Challenges

    2024-07-23

    Forbes: Finance departments aren’t just for finance anymore, and today's CFO really needs to be a full-on strategist. That’s one of the main conclusions from a report released earlier this month by Genpact and HFS Research, but it’s something most CFOs are very familiar with as their jobs have been rapidly changing.

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    MSCI Study Finds Higher ESG Ratings Lower Cost of Capital for Companies

    2024-07-23

    ESG News: In a comprehensive study conducted by MSCI ESG Research, the relationship between MSCI ESG Ratings and the cost of capital for corporate equity and debt issuers was analyzed. The study revealed that companies with higher ESG ratings generally experience lower financing costs, both in equity and debt markets.

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    Companies, Investors Overlooking Major Financial Risks from Unmeasured Scope 3 Emissions: BCG, CDP Report

    2024-07-23

    ESG Today: Most companies and investors are not yet measuring and targeting reductions in Scope 3 value chain emissions, leading to significant overlooked and unreported financial risks in their supply chains, according to a new report released by Boston Consulting Group and environmental disclosure system CDP.

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    T. Rowe Price Sees Blue Bond Market Poised for Growth

    2024-07-23

    BNN Bloomberg: T. Rowe Price Group Inc. is targeting a corner of the sustainable debt market that it sees growing fast over the next decade: blue bonds. Blue bonds are debt instruments issued by companies or financial institutions to fund projects that help protect or revive the world’s oceans and waterways in the face of climate change, overfishing and pollution.

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    Only 23% of EU Green Bonds to Meet December ‘Gold Standard’

    2024-07-22

    Funds Europe: The EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS), a voluntary ‘gold standard’ for Green, Social, and Sustainability (GSS) bond issuers, aims to combat greenwashing and enhance the transparency and credibility of Green Bonds across the EU. 

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    'Strengthen — Not Weaken': Big Business Calls for Policies That Drive Action on Nature

    2024-07-19

    GreenBiz: Some of the world's largest businesses and financial firms have urged governments to embrace more ambitious policies to halt and reverse nature loss this decade, as diplomats step up preparations for the next U.N. Biodiversity Summit in Colombia this autumn.

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