Isla Binnie

Reuters Corporate Governance correspondent in New York. Ex-Madrid, Rome and Milan. Any opinions are my own etc.

[Michelle Nichols @michellenichols]

Magnitude 5.5 struck struck New York and New Jersey. It was felt in UN Security Council, where cameras shook. Save the Children CEO Janti Soeripto, who was addressing the UNSC on Gaza, stopped speaking. Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour quipped: “You’re making the ground shake.”

[Jarrett Renshaw @JarrettRenshaw]

SCOOP: The SEC has dropped a requirement for U.S.-listed companies to disclose so-called Scope 3 emissions, which was included in its original draft of the rules published in March 2022, source tell me and @ChrisPrentice @douglasgillison @Islabin

[Anousha @anoushasakoui]

Another Friday afternoon scoop via @Agestebaran @Islabin
TotalEnergies explores US, Europe renewable portfolio stake sale- sources https://t.co/qBj26v1VKq

[Reuters Energy and Commodities @ReutersCommods]

ESG funds suffer weaker demand despite help from tech-sector performance @RossKerber @reuterstommy @Islabin https://t.co/OYzYpBoQyS

[Lananh Nguyen @LananhTNguyen]

EXCLUSIVE: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency carried out its first climate risk assessment of more than two dozen banks in recent months, signaling more scrutiny of Wall Street's accounting for such threats. By @Islabin & @ChrisPrentice https://t.co/Ccic7uBkhs

[Isla Binnie @Islabin]

California governor Gavin Newsom must decide by Oct. 14 whether to oblige large companies to disclose carbon footprints including, eventually, indirect greenhouse gas emissions. Apple is in favour, California Chamber of Commerce against.

https://t.co/9eUorMtQwd

[Reuters Energy and Commodities @ReutersCommods]

Inside Cleveland-Cliffs' bid to keep US blast furnaces smelting @Islabin @biancashamell https://t.co/ANMvcd2bJc

[Isla Binnie @Islabin]

#Blackrock says its reduced support for shareholder proposals on #environmental and #social issues is due to those resolutions increasingly "over-reaching" and not recognising some corporate progress #esg https://t.co/PJ7wCEod8A

[Tommy Reggiori Wilkes @reuterstommy]

BlackRock continues lowering support for environmental and social proposals https://t.co/KK3cT15j2E @RossKerber @Islabin

[Reuters Deals @reutersdeals]

Canadian pension funds explore $6 bln sale of renewables firm Cubico -sources https://t.co/MDn26ubYgJ @islabin @agestebaran

[Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage]

Gabon has delayed its $500m debt-for-nature swap, according to two sources who blamed market volatility after Treasury yields spiked.

The tender was expected to close on Aug 10 - now it's expected to be Aug 15.

Story with @marcjonesrtrs and @Islabin
https://t.co/IvEnAToY86

[Isla Binnie @Islabin]

Dampening? Halfway through shareholder meetings, support for #environmental resolutions was 25%, versus 38% for the whole previous season, and 43% for the whole year prior. Fascinating from @RossKerber #ESG https://t.co/CGE9s6QEd6

[Isla Binnie @Islabin]

#GM signs up its #EV drivers to be able to use #Tesla's supercharger network - the ripples our @Reuters story predicted are starting big! @abhiruproy30 @HyunjooJin

https://t.co/1nrE1EAs2N

[Abhirup Roy @abhiruproy30]

@Reuters #BreakingNews - @GM says to collaborate with @Tesla to integrate the North American Charging Standard #NACS connector design into its EVs beginning 2025
#EV #EVCharging #ElectricVehicles

[Isla Binnie @Islabin]

#airquality #nyc

[Greg Roumeliotis @GregRoumeliotis]

'ESG' in US finance job titles comes with 20% pay premium https://t.co/8X9TU35rmv

[Isla Binnie @Islabin]

Political turbulence dragged on Ecuador's bond prices, giving a boost to the economics of the biggest ever debt-for-nature swap, which also survived the troubles of lynchpin lender Credit Suisse @marcjonesrtrs @rodrigocampos

https://t.co/WKnc3wPi9f

[Isla Binnie @Islabin]

"It's supposed to be mark-to-market, not mark-to-fantasy," Peiffer said. "You want to understand why something is marked the way it is."

⁦@GQReuters⁩ https://t.co/B9rI6YEdnh

[Isla Binnie @Islabin]

On the plains of Iowa and the hills of New Hampshire, Republican presidential hopefuls ditch talk of the debt ceiling for “red-meat” topics like gender issues in schools ⁦@G_Slattery⁩ ⁦@ByTimReid⁩ https://t.co/XvKKALTmHM

[Isla Binnie @Islabin]

Governor Ron DeSantis bans Florida public officials from "ideological joyrides" (ESG investing and borrowing), raising questions about how to think about financial risks from climate and weather @RossKerber @Reuters

https://t.co/cRswPM1j0p

[Saeed Azhar Hasan @saeedhas]

INSIGHT-How JPMorgan's Dimon won the First Republic deal https://t.co/4GZPoxCc2y @Nupursays @ASenjourno @davidj_french @Islabin