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Supreme Court limits EPA’s role in combating climate change in a fresh jab at the 50-year-old Clean Air Act
President Joe Biden’s plan to address climate change hit a major hurdle as the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to…
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HSBC names top dealmaker Alexi Chan to lead new sustainable finance team
HSBC has promoted one of its top investment bankers to lead a new team of dealmakers tackling sustainable finance —…
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Germany faces gas supply ‘crisis,’ declares alarm level
Germany activated the second phase of its three-stage emergency plan for natural gas supplies Thursday, saying Europe’s biggest economy faces…
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Solvency II overhaul is ignoring huge climate risks
Jesse Griffiths is chief executive of the Finance Innovation Lab The prime minister says reforms to Solvency II are about getting rid…
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Biden sued by climate groups using novel legal argument to stop oil and gas drilling
Using an untested legal argument based on the Endangered Species Act, a coalition of environmental groups sued the Biden administration this…
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BlackRock bolsters Emea sustainable leadership team
BlackRock has made several high-profile hires and promotions across its sustainable investing team in Emea — a region that has contributed…
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Mark Dampier: HSBC’s Stuart Kirk was spot on about ESG
Mark Dampier is the former research director of Hargreaves Lansdown and author of Effective Investing One of the problems in the financial…
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New ETF for World Oceans Day invests in curbing plastic and smarter fishing
There’s a new way to help restore ocean health one share at a time. Incremental impact investing may seem like…
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New clock starts on fresh legal fight over PCB removal from Housatonic River
Lawyers are gearing up for the next, and possibly last, legal fight over the government’s plan to remove toxic pollutants…
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HSBC and Elon Musk herald a backlash over $3tn ESG boom
You’d think the $3tn ESG market was imploding, judging from the kicking the industry got this week. What started out…
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Leaders at Davos warn Ukraine war threatens clean energy transition
The worst energy crisis in a half-century is disrupting the West’s transition to cleaner sources of energy by providing new…
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HSBC exec suspended for ESG comments brought ‘dose of honesty’ to debate, ex-BlackRock sustainable investing chief says
HSBC Asset Management responsible investing head Stuart Kirk caused an uproar when he branded climate warnings from environmental “nut jobs” as false, leading…
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Jim O’Neill: Recession is coming, but we can still stop the worst of it
Jim O’Neill, a former chair of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and a former UK treasury minister, is a member of…
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Natixis IM’s global sustainability chief: ESG investing isn’t ‘charity’
ESG products may be tied to doing what’s right for the climate, but they’re there to make money, like any…
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Global ESG standards come one step closer to reality
Investors could soon benefit from a global standard for sustainability disclosure, as The International Sustainability Standards Board publishes its first set…
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Why the City needs to step up on new climate disclosure rules
In October 2021, the UK Government announced that it would become the first G20 country to make it mandatory for its…
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UK advertising watchdog mulls calling out HSBC for greenwashing
The UK advertising watchdog is considering whether to warn HSBC that several of the bank’s climate-related adverts are “misleading”. A draft Advertising…
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Climate change happening faster than globe can adapt, latest U.N. report warns
For much of the world, climate-change stress is right here, right now — and the latest highly-anticipated United Nations’ report…
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Green Finance Goes Mainstream, Lining Up Trillions Behind Global Energy Transition
Some of the world’s biggest companies and deepest-pocketed investors are lining up trillions of dollars to finance a shift away…
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Opinion: Hydrogen is the one clean energy source everyone seems to like, so why aren’t we using it more to fight climate change?
Tehran, 1943: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill—hosted by the young Shah Reza Pahlavi—agree on plans for the two-front…
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