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As Pandas Thrive, Is Panda Diplomacy Dying Out?

28/02/2025 No Comments

Since 1949, the establishment of the PRC (People’s Republic of China), giant pandas have been “employed” as ambassadors to showcase the goodwill of the Chinese …

How Elon Musk’s Tesla Bonuses are Fuelling a Delaware Exodus in 2025

26/02/2025 No Comments

Delaware’s Court of Chancery, founded in 1792, is one of the oldest legal institutions in ...

Did China’s Yu Renrong Upset Beijing Officials?

24/02/2025 No Comments

The last decade has seen a semiconductor race develop. There is heightened global competition between ...

Can the Lobito Corridor Help the DRC?

14/02/2025 No Comments

In 2023 The United States and the European Union started new efforts to secure access ...

Carbon credits past sell-by date show it’s time for corporate net-zero rethink

March 30, 2022

The use of “vintage” carbon credits which may be years old as a way to offset current carbon emissions shows its time for corporate citizens to get real on helping to create a net zero world, experts say.

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Saudi Arabia lures investors with green energy Vision

March 24, 2022

Africa Sustainability ESG

DRC responsible cobalt initiative needs breakthrough on mine access

January 18, 2022

Trying to avoid buying DRC cobalt makes little sense in purely financial terms. The DRC’s predominant role in global supply means that buyers will need to pay a premium to avoid it entirely. There is no green world without DRC cobalt

Banking News Sustainability ESG

Why is Deutsche Bank focusing on ESG?

December 29, 2021

Only a few months ago Deutsche Bank became entangled in a story about ‘greenwashing’.

Events Sustainability ESG

HSBC talk sustainability at Reuters’ Future of Money Event

December 10, 2021

Kelly Fisher from HSBC Bank USA spoke to the Reuters' Future of Money event about what her bank is doing to improve its ESG credentials.

Africa Sustainability ESG

Rwanda aims to become the Luxembourg of Africa for green finance

December 3, 2021

Africa urgently needs a new international finance centre, according to a survey of African decision-makers by Rwanda Finance, the agency mandated to develop the KIFC, and Africa Legal

Digital Assets Sustainability ESG Technology

Tailored Investing with ALLINDEX

November 30, 2021

This is a trend that Swiss FinTech company ALLINDEX is looking to capitalise on. They are aiming to “democratise customised investments” – allowing individual investors to build customized indexes in a self-service fashion in order to reflect their own ambitions and beliefs.

Asia Sustainability ESG Technology

Guangzhou: The Beating Heart of China’s Electric Vehicles Push

October 20, 2021

The development of electric vehicles can almost be read as a case-study in the success of the Chinese economy since the late seventies: an example of the long-term economic planning, and shrewd government investment, that has allowed the private sector to flourish – albeit under the iron fist of the state.

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Moody’s: G20 financial institutions face $22 trillion of exposure to carbon-intensive sectors

September 29, 2021

This week Moody’s Investors Service has published new data showing that G20 financial institutions have nearly $22 trillion of exposure to carbon-intensive sectors.

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What can banks do to help combat climate change?

August 12, 2021

What is needed, then, is a genuine green finance revolution. Investing in green debt, for example, would have a much greater long-term impact than directing capital to the same conventional companies who are simply claiming to have strengthened their dedication to ESG.

Asia Sustainability ESG

What is changing the Japanese approach to ESG?

August 4, 2021

Economic stagnancy has also reduced the ability (or desire) of companies to invest in green alternatives. Japanese companies have long been wary of investing and prefer to sit on piles of cash, reducing both innovation and the amount of investment that is pumped into green transformation.

Banking Europe Sustainability ESG

Good results for Amundi is good news for Europe

July 30, 2021

Today’s news by Amundi shows a strong result so far in 2021. Some of the takeaways of the financial statements for the second quarter of 2021 were summarized by their CEO, Valérie Baudson, who spoke about their Medium-Long-Term (MLT) Assets amongst other things:

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Russian Northern Sea Route opening raises dangers of Arctic environment disaster

July 22, 2021

In May 2020 one of Russia’s worst ecological disasters occurred when a fuel tank owned by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel ruptured, dumping more than 20,000 tons of diesel oil into the Ambarnaya river in the Russian Arctic.

Banking Business Sustainability ESG

How can banks finance the transition to net zero?

July 8, 2021

This is the Bankers for Net Zero initiative, set up by All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Fair Business Banking and transformation-focused business advisory firms Volans and Re:Pattern. In particular, they aim to demonstrate how banks and capital can be leveraged to help finance the path to a net-zero future.

Africa Sustainability ESG

Responsible gold sourcing and the long road from DRC to Dubai

July 1, 2021

Attempts by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) to get to grips with responsible gold sourcing will founder unless it can get to grips with east African supply chains used to move conflict gold in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Dubai.

Africa Banking Sustainability ESG

Ghana’s sustainable bonds will help government finances more than environment

June 15, 2021

Despite the unpromising medium-term outlook, Ghana should be able to raise the money provided it can meet the conditions set by Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investors, Bohlund says.

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