Lack of Climate Finance for EMs a “False Barrier”

Africa and other developing economies have the ambition to tackle climate challenges, but require investors to step up and capitalise on a plethora of projects.

Industry experts have stressed the importance of mobilising finance in Africa and other emerging markets (EMs), urging investors and governments to take action and find ways to overcome perceived hurdles for investment. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) underscored the crucial role that EMs will need to play…

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UK Investors Sound Warning on Voting Rights

Changes proposed by the FCA risk removing pressure from firms to perform and could encourage lack of accountability from management.

Institutional investors have stressed that the UK should not follow the US in the uptake of dual class share structures (DCSS), as a proposal from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) could make it easier for them to be used in the country. DCSS are structures that allow companies to issue…

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Labour’s Green Plan to Seduce Pension Funds

The UK’s main opposition party is predicted to claim an emphatic win at the upcoming election on a bold climate agenda – and pension funds are being asked to fund it.

How do you pay for a multi-trillion-pound energy transition when you have no money? That’s an awkward question facing the British Labour Party, which polls suggest is on track to win a landslide victory in the UK general election next week. Most forecasts predict the biggest ever defeat for the…

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EU Approves Nature Restoration Law

Austria’s unexpected support means the flagship biodiversity legislation will pass despite opposition from farmers.

EU member states have approved the bloc’s central biodiversity policy, the Nature Restoration Law, after Austria made a surprise last-minute decision to back the legislation. As a result, EU members will now be subject to the most comprehensive set of biodiversity targets in the bloc’s history. The unexpected twist will,…

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What Europe’s Rightward Shift Means for Investors

The EU has engaged in a flurry of sustainable lawmaking in the past five years, but right-wing groups’ growing influence in parliament may imperil the achievements of its Green Deal.

As the European parliamentary election results trickled in on Sunday evening, it quickly became clear that the polls were correct: Europe had lurched to the right. Greens and liberals lost seats. Climate-sceptic far-right parties gained them, most dramatically in France and Germany. And while across Europe the dominant alliance between…

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ESMA Tackles Greenwashing with New Tool

The EU watchdog plans to ramp up scrutiny of sustainable financial products, warning providers not to make “unsubstantiated” claims.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has developed a new tool that will enable it to better identify cases of greenwashing in the investment management industry. In a new report, the watchdog said it had recently increased its analytical efforts to detect mismatches between green claims and actual investment…

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EU SAF Action Risks Leaving Investors Red-faced

Regulatory pressure on airlines over greenwashing increases as deadlines for widespread incorporation of sustainable fuel approaches.

The European Commission (EC) has stressed investors in airlines and sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) have nothing to fear amid its action over potentially misleading green claims, but reputational risk remains a pervasive problem. At the end of April, the EC and EU consumer authorities sent letters to 20 airlines identifying…

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Planetary Boundaries Theory Presents Investment Opportunity

Private markets specialist Eurazeo plans to invest in companies that are aligned to the holistic concept of a ‘safe operating space for humanity’.

The European Union’s environmental regulations may be among the toughest in the world, but one asset manager believes there is money to be made by skipping far ahead even of Brussels’ green tape. Private equity investor Eurazeo has launched a new fund that will invest strictly in accordance with the…

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Investors Urged to Intervene in EU Meat Lobby 

Meat and dairy companies are mimicking fossil fuel sector tactics to stall Europe’s climate policy, putting its emissions targets at risk, InfluenceMap finds.

Climate-conscious asset owners should ramp up their engagement with Europe’s food producers, after new research revealed the meat and dairy sector had lobbied successfully against a raft of EU climate policies, according to the think tank behind the study. InfluenceMap, a non-profit that monitors climate lobbying activities, found meat and dairy industry…

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UK Climate Failure “Chills” Investor Confidence

Whoever wins July’s general election will need to prioritise climate ambition and provide clear policy signals for investors.

With the UK High Court having now dubbed the government’s net zero strategy unlawful for the second time, the country is now considered a climate laggard, leaving sustainability-conscious investors rudderless.   The decision has been interpreted by many as yet another setback for the government’s credibility on climate change.  “[The…

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