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  • Land tenure focus needed for nature investments, says Germany

    09 December 2024

    A focus on land tenure rights is needed across mainstream nature and climate investments, according to a German government official, but recognised data limitations.

  • What COP29 got wrong...and how to get it right

    09 December 2024

    Misaligned incentives are stunting climate progress, write UKSIF's James Alexander and US SIF's Maria Lettini

  • SBTN urges private sector and government alignment on nature targets

    04 December 2024

    The Science-based Targets Network (SBTN) has urged governments to look at private sector nature targets as a template for action at the desertification COP.

  • Public financing being 'wasted' on commercially viable nature projects, says EIB

    03 December 2024

    Public financiers need to ensure they are not "wasting" grant financing on nature projects that could be commercially successful, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has said.

  • Investors need to open their eyes to nature returns, says UNDP

    03 December 2024

    The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has called on private investors to "step up" and "open their eyes" to potential returns at the start of the desertification COP in Saudi Arabia.

  • Mapping a better picture of the transition

    Jaakko Kooroshy, Global Head of Sustainable Investment Research, and Kieran Brophy, Research Lead - Sovereign Climate, consider the key findings from the latest edition of LSEG's COP29 Net Zero Atlas.

  • COP16 to reconvene to sort 'unfinished business'

    29 November 2024

    The Convention on Biological Diversity has announced that it will reconvene the COP16 biodiversity talks in February to finalise "unfinished business", including finance.

  • After COP29, can voluntary carbon markets scale again?

    27 November 2024

    COP29 paved the way for the resurgence of demand for carbon credits - but only if we address the many paradoxes that abound in the market, argues Renat Heuberger

  • Mitigation needs work for COP30 after 'basically no outcome' at COP29

    27 November 2024

    After a 'mitigation-lite' COP29 event, the Swedish COP negotiator said the next climate summit needs to focus on getting a "clear mechanism" in place to deliver the ground-breaking deal to transition away from fossil fuels agreed at COP28.

  • 'Door is now open' for Article 6 transactions, says Standard Chartered

    26 November 2024

    Progress on Article 6 at COP29 should be a catalyst for credit demand, Standard Chartered's carbon market development director has said, but noted that some "unknowns" still remain.