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Denmark's Largest Bank Maintains Climate Commitment and Divests from Over 1700 Fossil Fuel Companies

Mintz on 8/18/2025

Last week, Danske Bank--Denmark's largest bank--announced that it would no longer invest in over 1700 fossil fuel companies due to their failure to adequately prepare for climate change. Specifically, their “investment...more

Impact Investing: Keys to a Responsible Exit

Carlton Fields on 2/12/2024

Impact investing has been gaining new prominence recently to respond to the environmental and social challenges that the traditional frameworks of philanthropy alone could not address. Impact investors generally seek to...more

UK/EU ESG Regulation Monthly Round-Up – March-June 2023

Hogan Lovells on 7/10/2023

As we reach the midway point of 2023, the Hogan Lovells Sustainable Finance and Investment practice thought it would be useful to provide a review of recent key ESG developments from March-June 2023 to assist with navigating...more

Investors Pressure European Banks to End Financing for New Oil and Gas Fields

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 2/27/2023

On February 7, a group of 30 investors, representing over $1.5 trillion of assets under management, wrote to the CEOs and board chairs of five major European banks “urging them to stop directly financing new oil and gas...more

Investing: Dutch Bank Publishes Climate Strategy and Joins NZBA

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 1/4/2023

On December 16, the Amsterdam headquartered bank ABN AMRO announced the publication of a climate strategy and its decision to join the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). ABN AMRO stated that it is “committed to making a...more

Banks – What Should You Know? Civil Liability for Failure to Detect Human Trafficking

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 12/15/2022

In 2020, we wrote about the increased regulatory attention on financial institutions’ obligations to detect and respond to human trafficking. In 2021, we wrote about how anti-human trafficking programs fit squarely in banks’...more

COP26: Key Takeaways and Action Items on Climate Change (Part II)

Stikeman Elliott LLP on 1/5/2022

In our previous post, we highlighted a number of global goals and campaigns aimed at addressing climate change. In this post, we examine climate change-oriented policies and initiatives that are being adopted by many...more

It pays to be sustainable – a new cornerstone for the green revolution

White & Case LLP on 5/3/2019

Governments and multilaterals alone cannot finance the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy: the world's savers (via the banks and bond market) represent the only pool of capital deep enough. The OECD estimates...more

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