Eugenio Solla, chief sustainability officer at CaixaBank, speaks to The Banker about the Spanish bank’s track record in sustainable finance and how it embeds sustainability criteria in all its activities.
How much carbon dioxide emissions have been avoided because of the sustainable capital markets?
Banks need to develop a ‘nature first’ culture, starting at the top and permeating throughout the organisation.
The global supply of socially responsible debt severely contracted at the start of the year.
Sustainability is revolutionising accounting, which, in turn, is set to revolutionise the way finance flows to companies.
The continent’s transition away from fossil fuels is fraught with difficulty, not least if the overall aim is both a cleaner and fairer future.
Cyprus’s finance minister talks to The Banker about how the country’s economy has coped during the pandemic and the recovery ahead.
The introduction of a compliance-related approach to financial crime enforcement, where liability may be triggered by actions far down a supply chain, will likely be applied to ESG concerns too.
It is not possible to manage climate risk without looking at nature, argues David Craig, co-chair of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.
Derivatives with sustainability targets attached to them are becoming more common, but are they really an effective tool for improving a company’s sustainability?
Greater numbers of listing venues around the world offer guidance on sustainability reporting
As work at the IFRS’s International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) continues to create a new ESG reporting framework that would be as widely accepted as IFRS accounting standards are, we caught up with the head of one of the two organisations merging into ISSB.
The introduction of compliance-related offences within financial crime enforcement, where liability may be triggered by actions far down a supply chain, will likely be applied to ESG concerns too.
The financial sector has a critical role to play in supporting positive environmental, social and economic outcomes across the continent.
The UK bank’s second green bond, and fourth issuance under its green, social and sustainability framework, incentivises purchases of energy efficient properties.
The sustainable finance pioneer has big plans to cut carbon emissions — both its own and its customers’.
Renewable energy infrastructure and clear asset definitions are essential in a green and just economy.
Despite investor pressure, there is still much work to do around corporate disclosures of climate-related risks.
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands talks to Silvia Pavoni about financial health and the need to research its implications for financial stability.
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