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Biodiversity data tool map finds key imbalances

The Nature Tech Collective and Conservation International have partnered to launch a map of biodiversity data tools on the market, finding that key imbalances remain with some technologies failing to meet their "full potential".

EU countries agree to 'stop the clock' on CSRD reporting

FCA asks ESG ratings providers to help it draw up regulation

Taxonomy cuts to 'significantly damage' sustainable investment market, warn EU advisers

The EU has been warned by its expert advisers that proposed cuts to its sustainability taxonomy will have negative 'ripple effects' on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and constrain the market for sustainable and transition investments.

Reliance on taxonomy would be ill-advised in overhauled SFDR, ICMA tells EU

The EU has been warned against a 'potentially reductionist approach' overly relying on its taxonomy at the expense of the theme of transition in an overhauled Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA).

Solving Scope 3

GMO has devised its own Scope 3 emissions data to give investors the 'complete picture', George Sakoulis tells Rob Langston

Exclusive: NatureAlpha overhauls nature data offering amid 'unbelievable' AI improvements

Data tech start-up NatureAlpha has upgraded its Geoverse data platform, helped by the "unbelievable" improvements in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI).

'AI could offer better green bond impact and incentives from day one'

Artificial intelligence (AI) could provide an opportunity for green bonds to become "more incentivising and transparent" around impact from the very earliest structuring phase,...

ISS preparing sustainability bond rating

ISS STOXX is readying a 'sustainability bond rating' that it says will help investors analyse the sustainability impact and risks of labelled bonds ...

Addressing the hidden water footprint of data and AI

Rising adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is indirectly driving soaring water consumption by data centres, write Lisa Beauvilain, Matthew Wright & Johan Florén