ESG / SUSTAINABILITY

ESG / Sustainability

IFC Releases AI-powered ESG Analysis Tool for Emerging Markets

By ESG Investor | 16/02/2024

Amundi helped to develop the tool, which was tested with New Development Bank, an export credit agency, and a capital markets regulator.

ESG / Sustainability

Top ASEAN Exchanges to Jointly Develop Sustainability Ecosystem

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 15/02/2024

The exchanges will reconvene in July to finalise the ecosystem’s implementation details, governance framework and operating structure.

ESG / Sustainability

ICMA Calls for Widespread Voluntary Adoption of Transition Plans

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 15/02/2024

In a new paper, the industry body offers a model structure for integrated transition plans that align with IFRS, EU, UK and ICMA’s own standards.

ESG / Sustainability

Japan Becomes First Sovereign to Issue Climate Transition Bonds

By Editors | 15/02/2024

Japan sold JPY 800 billion of 10-year climate transition bonds and plans to sell a further tranche of 5-year bonds later this month.

ESG / Sustainability

ISDA Develops Climate Scenarios for the Trading Book

By Manesh Samtani | 14/02/2024

The climate scenarios were developed in the second half of 2023 during a pilot exercise with more than 30 banks.

ESG / Sustainability

LME Facing Lawsuit Over “Dirty Metals” Sourced from Indonesia

By Editors | 14/02/2024

The case could force the LME to revisit its rules for listing metals for trading, the London Mining Network and Global Legal Action Network said.

ESG / Sustainability

Investors Embrace GRI Biodiversity Standard, Acknowledge Systemic Risk

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 09/02/2024

GRI’s Harold Pauwels tells Regulation Asia that the financial sector acknowledges that biodiversity impacts bring associated risks to investor portfolios.

ESG / Sustainability

Major Chinese Bourses Issue Sustainability Reporting Guidelines

By Editors | 09/02/2024

Companies in the SSE 180, STAR 50, SZSE 100, and ChiNext indexes, and those dually listed overseas, have to report in line with the new guidelines by 30 April 2026.

ESG / Sustainability

IIGCC Releases Derivatives, Hedge Funds Guidance

By ESG Investor | 09/02/2024

The guidance provides advice to hedge fund managers on how to report on the real-economy impact of their holdings and better support net zero investment strategies.