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Fathom offers global flood map covering all perils

Sustainable bond round-up: your questions answered

The Environmental Finance Data team answer audience questions from the third quarter 2022 sustainable bond issuance round-up webinar. Compiled by Guy Richardson

Platform to provide open carbon credit data

World Bank warns of SLB greenwashing risk from 'structural loopholes'

The World Bank encouraged the market to consider expanding the role of external reviewers for sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) to cover their structure, after research identified "structural loopholes" which pose a greenwashing risk for the market.

RepRisk, IBAT launch biodiversity tool for extractives

Swiss data firm RepRisk has launched a product for measuring the biodiversity impact of mining and oil & gas projects in a move it billed as a "ground-breaking" foray into location-based information.

Video: AllianceBernstein's Tiffanie Wong on the importance of ESG data

Tiffanie Wong, director of fixed income responsible investing portfolio management at AllianceBernstein, shares her view on sustainable finance in fixed income as well as ESG data and corporate disclosure

Asset managers: TNFD must not 'water down' standards

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) diluting its standard to make it more accessible would endanger its credibility, impact-focused asset managers have said.

UK regulator warns financials they face climate risk supervisory escalation

Banks and insurers have been warned by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) they face an escalation in supervisory pressure if they fail to address climate-related financial risk appropriately.

Bloomberg expands carbon emissions data

Honesty on transition challenges, failures is 'antithesis' of greenwashing

Being honest around what has led to failures to achieve transition targets is the "antithesis of greenwashing" but remains relatively uncommon among corporates at present, according to Impax Asset Management (AM).