Category: Law & Policy | Netzeroinvestor

James Alexander: UK at risk of losing out on ‘tens of billions’ of green investment

Chief executive of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association calls on UK to respond to the threat from the US Inflation Reduction Act and the proposed EU Net Zero Industry Act.

By Mike Thatcher

CSDDD: ‘a critical opportunity to accelerate the net-zero transition’

With the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive making legislative progress, investment professionals explore how it will help speed up the net-zero transition.

Investors help launch commission on global mining industry

UN PRI and Church of England Pensions Board behind drive to reform industry in wake of allegations of labour abuses and biodiversity loss.

Policy

Asset owner scenario planning the ‘backbone’ of science-based net-zero commitments

Transition

UK net-zero review: ‘economic opportunities missed’ in transition planning

Investment Manager

Norway’s sustainable taxonomy: the tool investors have been missing?

COP15: financial institutions call for ‘ambitious’ biodiversity framework

Final agreement in Montreal ‘should contain a clear mandate for alignment of financial flows with preservation of biodiversity’.

By Christopher Marchant

Juniper: COP15 an ‘inflection point’ for biodiversity

FCA stresses importance of governance in transition plans

COP15: Day one addresses need to close biodiversity ‘finance gap’

Regulators urged to be bold as research finds rules boost revenues

Slow and steady return to ESG predicted after DoL rule change

Birol: 1.5 degrees target ‘is not dead’

Banking

COP27: MDBs welcome call to scale up climate funding

Pensions

Sustainability chief: ‘Vladimir Putin not a long-term value driver’

Biodiversity

Getting biodiversity back on the agenda

COP27: UK Transition Plan Taskforce publishes disclosure framework

The framework encourages the development of standardised, gold standard transition plans to support a net-zero economy.

ESG

FCA’s disclosure proposals call for ‘higher ambition and intentionality’

Energy

China: ‘building the new before discarding the old’

Transition

South Africa to announce details of energy transition investment plan

Regulation

Incentivise investment with robust carbon trading regulation, IIGCC says

Investment Manager

GFANZ members no longer ‘required’ to partner with UN’s Race to Zero initiative