Columbia University’s Columbia Climate School announced today the launch of a new masters degree program for climate finance, the first of its kind in the U.S., aimed at training professionals to address the challenges and opportunities of climate change and the global energy transition. The program will be offered in close collaboration with the Columbia Business School, providing an “interdisciplinary…
Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) announced that it will no longer include diversity considerations such as gender and race in its voting recommendations for boards of directors in the U.S., in light of the increased political scrutiny on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)-related practices. The move by ISS forms part of a series of major adjustments being made…
Australia-based financial services group Macquarie announced that it has decided to leave the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), expanding what had been a primarily North America-focused series of exits from the UN-backed coalition of banks dedicated to advancing global net zero goals through their financing activities. While Macquarie did not explicitly state reasons for its departure from the net zero group,…
The Brazilian National Council of Justice (CNJ) has recently issued Recommendation No. 156/2024, advising all branches of the Brazilian Judiciary and judges to adopt the second scope of the CNJ’s Protocol for Judging Environmental Lawsuits (Protocol). This second scope provides guidelines for quantifying the impact of environmental damages on climate change. In 2023, the CNJ published the first scope of…