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  • Sustainalytics launches 'low carbon transition ratings'

    10 March 2023

    Sustainalytics has launched Low Carbon Transition Ratings, which it said "provide investors with a forward-looking assessment of a company's current alignment to a net-zero pathway", as previously reported by Environmental Finance.

  • EF's Sustainable Investment Awards open for entries

    06 March 2023

    Entries to Environmental Finance's annual Sustainable Investment Awards are open until 14 April 2023.

  • Ariel Re to offset carbon in novel cat bond transaction

    03 March 2023

    Property, casualty and specialty reinsurer Ariel Re has issued a $125m catastrophe bond with a mechanism that will help offset carbon emissions associated with having to replace damaged property.

  • EU carbon price breaks €100 barrier

    22 February 2023

    Europe's carbon price broke the €100 ($106) barrier for the first time on Tuesday, boosted by strong demand amid policy reforms.

  • Manulife: Biodiversity is biggest opportunity for private markets

    16 February 2023

    Biodiversity is "arguably the biggest opportunity for private markets", and will expand beyond timberland to other types of investments including in the technology sector, an executive at Manulife has said.

  • World Bank issues 'unique' carbon credit-linked bond

    15 February 2023

    The World Bank has raised $50 million from an outcomes-based bond which links its coupon payments to verified carbon credits generated by a water purification project, described as a "unique" and "important" deal by investors backing the transaction.

  • Banks invest $45m in carbon offset trading platform

    08 February 2023

    BNP Paribas is among nine banks who have invested $45 million together in voluntary carbon credit trading platform Carbonplace.

  • Voluntary carbon market has 'notable concern in quality', finds WWF tool

    06 February 2023

    The Carbon Credit Quality Initiative (CCQI) has scored the quality of over a quarter of the carbon credits in the voluntary carbon market (VCM).