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An Increasing Sense of Urgency

Chris Hall

In December 2020, the Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) set up an Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance comprising business, financial and academic experts with observers of officials from pertinent ministries and agencies. Significant progress. This July the panel released its second progress report , revealing extent of progress.

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Stewardship Nears Breaking Point

Chris Hall

Car manufacturer Toyota is facing a climate-focused shareholder resolution of its own, with Danish pension fund AkademikerPension demanding more transparency on the company’s climate lobbying practices. However, as institutional investors, academics, NGOs, investor networks and data providers congregated in London last week for ESG Investor ’s inaugural (..)