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  • Anew: 2025 targets drive boost in demand for voluntary carbon credits

    18 January 2023

    Companies are snapping up voluntary carbon credits as they seek to fulfil their looming interim decarbonisation targets, an executive at Anew Climate has said.

  • Biodiversity Insight 2023 published

    18 January 2023

    Environmental Finance has published Biodiversity Insight 2023, featuring articles about how investors are incorporating biodiversity concerns into their decisions in light of the Global Biodiversity Framework agreed at COP15.

  • Global market for biodiversity 'unlikely', investor says

    13 January 2023

    Biodiversity will remain a niche area of investment, as developing a global market for it is "unlikely" to happen, an executive at Nordis Capital has said.

  • RBC: Carbon markets can drive nature investment

    11 January 2023

    Carbon markets can play a "big role" in driving capital towards nature-positive projects, an executive at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has said.

  • CBAM must include manufactured products to avoid 'carbon leakage'

    22 December 2022

    The ground-breaking carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) proposed by the EU could have the unintended consequence of creating more 'carbon leakage' due to its emphasis on basic materials rather than manufactured products, according to Scope.

  • Carbon markets can help provide nature-based solutions

    21 December 2022

    The US Nature Based Solutions roadmap suggests finance through private measures but misses an opportunity to fully utilise the voluntary carbon market, argues Torrey Sanseverino

  • PCAF sovereign debt methodology plugs gap in emissions accounting, says Allianz

    21 December 2022

    The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) has published a methodology to help investors in sovereign debt account and report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which Allianz says helps fill a gap for financial institutions.

  • EU agrees 'game-changing' carbon market expansion

    20 December 2022

    The EU has agreed a ground-breaking carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) alongside a deal to strengthen and expand its emissions trading system (ETS),...