Announcements made at COP27 by the Climate Data Steering Committee and the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance are further evidence of the importance of environmental, social and governance data in solving the climate crisis. Taxonomy initiatives, corporate disclosure, international standardisation and greenwashing were all on the agenda at the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh.
Climate change action is a collective failure By Meghnad Desai There is a serious global paralysis when it comes to climate change. We know the danger. We know how to avoid the danger. We promise to do so. But we never do. It is a failure of collective will.Read the full commentary here.
MEETINGS Greening portfolios and reducing carbon footprints Tuesday 29 November, Roundtable Benoit Mojon and Gong Cheng from the Bank for International Settlements discuss strategies for building portfolios of sovereign securities with progressively declining carbon footprints. Register to attend here.
ON DEMAND CEE in focus: navigating through volatility This high-level event focused on the CEE region. It brought together leading debt management offices and investors to discuss how sovereign issuers are finding innovative ways to navigate through the volatility and the outlook ahead.Watch the video here.