Archive

  • Bond round-up: NBN, Auckland, CEB ... and more

    27 March 2024
  • NZBA hits back at 'premature' criticism

    27 March 2024

    It is "premature" to criticise members of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) for not overhauling their practices to tackle climate change because the initiative is still young, it has argued.

  • ESMA launches EU green bond external reviewer consultation

    27 March 2024

    The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) launched a consultation on the draft technical standards it plans to use for the registration and supervision of external reviewers of bonds issued in line with the EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS).

  • France and Brazil launch €1bn Amazon investment plan

    27 March 2024

    The French and Brazilian presidencies have announced a roadmap to raise €1 billion ($1.1 billion) of public and private finance for the protection of the Amazon over the next four years.

  • 'US IRA has worked where taxonomies have not'

    27 March 2024

    A senior banker has argued that the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) economic incentive package has delivered real climate-focused financial flows in a way that 'green' taxonomy-focused approaches have not.

  • EU work on SLB regulation may come too late, says IEEFA

    27 March 2024

    European Commission work on regulating sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) may come too late to help reach 2030 climate goals, according to a think tank.

  • AI part of the toolkit for energy transition, says SET Ventures

    26 March 2024

    Energy transition-focused venture capital investor SET Ventures is looking to increase its reliance on artificial intelligence as a value creator with its latest fund, Environmental Finance understands.

  • Tesla and General Motors face deep sea mining shareholder resolutions

    26 March 2024

    Two of the world's largest car makers have been hit with shareholder resolutions related to deep sea mining to extract the minerals needed for electric batteries.

  • EU rowback on agricultural policy 'irresponsible', say investors

    26 March 2024

    A proposal to water down environmental protections within the EU's Common Agricultural Policy has been deemed "irresponsible" by investors.

  • NZBA has little impact on decarbonisation, ECB paper says

    26 March 2024

    Signatories to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) "are neither divesting nor engaging differently from banks without a climate commitment," a group of economists said in a report.