Frédéric Ducoulombier

Mar 1, 2024 | ipe.com | Frédéric Ducoulombier

Reporting of value chain emissions, whether upstream such as purchased goods, or downstream such as product use (think combustion of fossil fuels), will be abandonedInvestor advocacy for value-chain emissions (Scope 3) reporting and its possible incorporation within a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) climate disclosure rule have sparked fierce resistance from fossil fuel interests.

Oct 24, 2023 | ipe.com | Sophie Robinson-Tillett |Susanna Rust |Rachel Fixsen |Frédéric Ducoulombier

‘Everyone in the sustainable finance industry knows there’s a problem with not being clear enough’: Fabian on updating the PRI’s member expectationsIn a document published today, the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment has proposed two new approaches to distinguishing between signatories. The first is relatively superficial – asking members to explain which sustainable finance topics they prioritise and how they are making progress on them.

Oct 16, 2023 | ipe.com | Venilia Amorim |Olaf Boschman |Luigi Serenelli |Frédéric Ducoulombier

Fidelity International, with $744.8bn in total assets, has launched the Fidelity European Direct Lending Fund – its first direct lending strategy focusing on senior secured loans. It has completed its first transaction, providing a senior financing package to Clinias Dental Group, a dental care services business in the Netherlands owned by Bencis and Clinias’ management.

Oct 13, 2023 | ipe.com | Frédéric Ducoulombier |Stephen Bouvier |Venilia Amorim |Sophie Robinson-Tillett

Frédéric Ducoulombier, EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute, says the ISSB chair straw-mans the positions of advocates of the the EU ESRS’s double materialityIn an op-ed published by French reference newspaper Le Monde* earlier this week, Emmanuel Faber, chair of the IFRS Foundation’s International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), represents that the double-materiality approach to sustainability reporting is a simplistic concept whose popularity derives from a “triple illusion”.

Sep 7, 2023 | thebanker.com | Frédéric Ducoulombier

More meaningful corporate sustainability reporting requiredThe backtracking by lawmakers on mandatory requirements for corporate reporting could undermine the original intention of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, users of disclosure statements fear. |September 12 Corporate reporting on sustainability matters is grossly inadequate.