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  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    FT Moral Money Forum
    Why nature’s future underpins the future of business

    Managing biodiversity can be even more complex than reducing carbon emissions. But the costs of inaction are becoming clear

  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Special ReportManaging Climate Change
    Global tangle of climate disclosure rules risks causing ‘reporting fatigue’

    Companies urge flexibility to ease the compliance burden of new but differing requirements

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  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Special ReportManaging Climate Change
    Pressure grows for tighter scrutiny of funds’ green claims

    As regulators focus on sustainable investments, campaigners are calling for greater disclosure and even political action

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  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    UK bans vague ‘sustainability’ fund labels in greenwashing crackdown

    Financial Conduct Authority moves to outlaw ‘misleading’ marketing in $250bn sector

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  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    Today in ESG: why not buy propane, plastic pipes, and oilfield equipment

    Stop worrying about limits, start imagining possibilities

  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    Money Clinic with Claer Barrett
    How to invest for a greener future

    From the FT Archive: Should you put your money into ESG funds?

  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
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    Finance sector seeks to plug impact investing gap with new ‘taskforce’ Premium content

    New Impact Disclosure Taskforce aims to help developing nations draw investment

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  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    Lex Populi
    Green finance: banks’ climate pledges undermined by woolly definitions

    Criteria for transition funding vary wildly

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  • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
    Exchange traded funds
    ‘Dark green’ Article 9 fund upgrade fails to materialise

    Just 15 funds were moved up from the EU’s Article 8 classification in the third quarter

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  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
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    Investors pile into Brazil’s first sustainable bond Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, private capital struggles to rise to the global climate challenge

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  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
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    A novel approach to climate-proof infrastructure Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, some of the world’s largest polluters are getting dirtier

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  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    ExplainerInvestment trusts
    Yawning ESG trust discounts offer opportunities, say analysts

    Sector is a big investor in renewable energy, where discounts have widened to 25 per cent

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  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
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    Will big bets on critical minerals pay off? Premium content

    Investors must survive wild market swings to reap rewards

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  • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
    Occidental Petroleum Corp
    BlackRock set to invest $550mn in Occidental direct air capture project

    Move is a sign of support for the world’s largest venture deploying nascent climate technology

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  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
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    What AI means for ESG Premium content

    As governments ratchet up pressure around artificial intelligence, ESG investors are doing so too

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  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
    Special Report
    FTfm: Fixed Income

    US Federal Reserve forecasts suggesting ‘higher for longer’ interest rates have caused bond yields to soar — and bondholders to sell. Borrowers on floating rates are also feeling pain. But money market funds and catastrophe bonds still have fans

  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    UK investors pull out of ESG funds

    Record outflow of £544mn from responsible investment funds in September

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  • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
    Workplace diversity & equality
    BlackRock study finds gender-balanced companies outperform peers

    World’s largest asset manager publishes report as critics attack ESG factors in investing

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  • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
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    Walmart and DoorDash shun UN human rights rapporteur Premium content

    Companies silent on questions about treatment of workers

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  • Monday, 23 October, 2023
    Paula DiPerna
    It is time we paid nature back

    New financial tools are at hand to help us invest in the value of the economic benefits the natural world provides

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  • Monday, 23 October, 2023
    Special Report
    FTfm: Exchange Traded Funds

    Our latest ETFs report covers the recent popularity of fixed income, the rise of India and their lack of adoption in the UK

  • Monday, 23 October, 2023
    FT GuidesDigital financial services: an explainer
    How can data-screening help investors meet ESG standards?

    As demand for exclusionary investments rises, AI especially is evolving to process information on companies’ activities

  • Monday, 23 October, 2023
    Markets InsightAswath Damodaran
    ESG is beyond redemption: may it RIP

    The investing framework is now facing a mountain of troubles, almost all of them of its own making

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  • Friday, 20 October, 2023
    Moral Money
    How will the world’s biggest coal exporter wean itself off the fuel? Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, why the SEC’s scrutiny of ESG isn’t going anywhere

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  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
    Corporate social responsibility
    More than 50,000 companies to report climate impact in EU after pushback fails

    Rightwing attempt to block the adoption of new sustainability rules is voted down

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