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Make 2022 the year of climate accounting

January 4, 2022

Despite investor pressure, there is still much work to do around corporate disclosures of climate-related risks.

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Finance and regulators need to focus on financial health

December 14, 2021

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands talks to Silvia Pavoni about financial health and the need to research its implications for financial stability.

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Private equity escapes climate scrutiny

December 14, 2021

Some managers have made partial disclosures of Scope 3 emissions, which cover indirect emissions in the value chain, but most omitted any mention of their investments

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Sustainable investment is a ‘first-world’ option

December 14, 2021

Despite some progress, the work around defining and improving sustainable investment ignores developing markets’ reality

Patrice Caine

The engineering approach to ESG

December 10, 2021

Thales’s CEO comments on sustainable fuels, green algorithms and smart data.

Carlo Messina

Sustainability top of mind for Intesa Sanpaolo

November 30, 2021

Carlo Messina, CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s biggest bank by assets following the merger with UBI Banca, talks to The Banker about Italy’s economic rally, the bank’s job in supporting the recovery and the role ESG will play in its new strategic plan.

Nouriel Roubini

The cost of empty ESG promises

November 24, 2021

Greenwashing leads to climate litigation – and finance is on the firing line

Philippe Heim, La Banque Postale

La Banque Postale's CEO on science and purpose

November 24, 2021

After becoming the first European lender approved by the Science Based Targets initiative, La Banque Postale is now looking at formally including ESG considerations in its legal status

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When it comes to the climate, we all must try harder – journalists included

November 23, 2021

Discussions around climate change and wider sustainability factors still need focus and a sense of urgency.

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Expect growing ESG activism

November 19, 2021

Beware of the many shapes of environmental activism that will likely reshape your strategy.

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