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Rinnovabili • Climate banking alliances
Finance
UN-backed banking alliance walks away from 1.5°C target

The UN’s climate banking alliance drops the 1.5°C goal, signaling a softer approach to net zero. Keyword: climate banking alliances

Rinnovabili • esg fund taxonomy boosts investments by 8.9 percent
Finance
Funds with esg labels draw 8.9%…

Use of ESG fund taxonomy increases investor interest, especially in UCITS. But…

Rinnovabili • EU taxonomy simplification could weaken sustainable finance framework
Finance
EU taxonomy simplification could weaken sustainable…

The proposed changes under the Omnibus package risk increasing the misalignment between…


Rinnovabili • global economic crisis
Finance
Ecological goods are growing despite the general global trade crisis

The UN organization for trade and development has showed that the global crisis has its significant…

Rinnovabili • low-carbon funding
Finance
We must multiply low-carbon funding by 4 within 7 years

A BloombergNEF report analyzes the relationship between funding in low-carbon and fossil-based projects. The 2021 figure…

Rinnovabili • ESG investments
Finance
A snail’s pace on ESG investments: here are the asset managers to…

Two-thirds of the world’s 77 largest managers surveyed do not invest responsibly in ESG. Including the…

Rinnovabili • EU green taxonomy
Finance
Gas and nuclear in EU green taxonomy, Greenpeace against Brussels

The environmental NGO addresses the European Court of Justice for the inclusion of fossil gas and…

Rinnovabili • transition plans
Finance
Only 0.4% of global companies have credible transition plans

The update of the usual monitoring of Cdp on over 18,600 companies reveals a setback compared…

Rinnovabili • investing in fossils
Finance
Major global banks do not lose the habit of investing in fossils.…

From November 2021 to August 2022, 56 institutions joining GFANZ mobilized something like $269 billion to…

Rinnovabili • Biodiversity Risk
Finance
WWF Biodiversity Risk Filter for companies and financial institutions

WWF has launched a new tool dedicated to companies and financial institutions to understand their impacts…

Rinnovabili • green taxonomy
Finance
Independent taxonomy regulation lands in Brussels, against greenwashing

The tool replicates the EU taxonomy in parts not harmful to the environment and proposes alternative…

Rinnovabili • Finance and renewable
Finance
Finance and renewable: 7 years of unrequited love

The 60 largest global banks continue investing much more in fossil fuels than clean energy. Of…

Rinnovabili • greenwashing
Finance
Directive against greenwashing: States will decide fines

Sanctions against companies that falsely declare or inflate their green credentials should be "effective, proportionate and…

Rinnovabili • climate-finance
Finance
Should China start contributing to climate finance?

Depending on the metric used, Beijing emerges both as a country that should pay more than…

Rinnovabili • climate stress test
Finance
Biden hides his wallet: only $1 billion in climate funds

Despite the promises and willingness to create an additional loss and damage fund shown at COP27,…