ESG / Sustainability

    ESG / Sustainability

    TWSE Issues Governance Guidance for Listed Company Directors

    By Editors | 04/10/2022

    The guidance provides a reference for how independent directors should be selected, how they should perform their duties, and their role in audit committees.

    ESG / Sustainability

    An Increasing Sense of Urgency

    By ESG Investor | 03/10/2022

    Satoshi Ikeda, Chief Sustainable Finance Officer at Japan’s Financial Services Agency, is targeting increased action among asset owners.

    ESG / Sustainability

    FMSB Publishes Spotlight Review on Voluntary Carbon Markets

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 02/10/2022

    The spotlight review details the key challenges of VCMs and offers recommendations to help in their transition into a mature asset class.

    ESG / Sustainability

    Fed Plans Climate-risk Pilot for US Banks

    By ESG Investor | 02/10/2022

    The participating banks are Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo.

    Capital / Liquidity

    EBA Considers Assessing Climate in Regular Bank Stress Tests

    By Editors | 02/10/2022

    The EBA has kicked off high level discussions on how to incorporate climate risks in regular stress tests that take place every two years.

    ESG / Sustainability

    China Designates 18 ‘Gatekeepers’ for Green Bond Market

    By Darien Choong | 02/10/2022

    The 18 firms, which include PwC, EY and Morningstar’s China units, will be responsible for evaluating and certifying green bonds and help to prevent greenwashing.

    ESG / Sustainability

    Singapore Exchange Launches Battery Metal Futures

    By Editors | 02/10/2022

    Contracts were launched in battery-grade lithium carbonate; lithium hydroxide; cobalt metal; and cobalt hydroxide.

    ESG / Sustainability

    ISDA Analyses Regulatory Treatment of SLDs in Hong Kong

    By Editors | 02/10/2022

    The paper considers how SLDs would be classified and regulated, and the compliance issues for market participants to consider when executing SLDs.

    ESG / Sustainability

    Fitch Flags Growing Pains for Sustainability-linked Bonds

    By ESG Investor | 01/10/2022

    Remedies needed to address misaligned incentives and lack of comparability in booming market, says ratings agency.

    ESG / Sustainability

    Australian Investors Demand Further Climate Reforms

    By ESG Investor | 30/09/2022

    The Investor Group on Climate Change has outlined “high priority policies“ needed to “unlock capital” for Australia’s net zero transition.

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