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  • Long-standing KommuneKredit green bond programme comes to end

    08 April 2025

    Danish municipality funding agency KommuneKredit has confirmed it will no longer issue green bonds to finance its significant green loan programme,...

  • ESMA consults on rules governing EU GBS external reviewers

    08 April 2025
  • Two-year delay to CSRD reporting approved, in 'step toward full exemption'

    03 April 2025

    EU lawmakers have approved a two-year delay to corporate sustainability reporting for companies that were set to comply from next year, in a vote one observer said was the first step...

  • EU Green Bond Standard set to fuel debate on overhauling DNSH, says Mirova

    03 April 2025

    The first deals aligned with the EU Green Bond Standard (GBS) suggest the regulation will fuel the debate on overhauling the EU's criteria to ensure investments 'do no significant harm' (DNSH) to sustainability objectives, Environmental Finance's Sustainable Debt EMEA conference heard.

  • Amundi 'very surprised' ICMA and EU GBS don't align

    03 April 2025

    Amundi has told an Environmental Finance panel it was "very surprised" that the EU did not align its Green Bond Standard (GBS) with the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) Green Bond Principles.

  • UK government confirms nature market accelerator launch

    02 April 2025

    The UK government has confirmed plans to launch an industry-funded 'accelerator' group to bring "much needed coherence to nature markets", as part of wider plans to boost 'green finance'.

  • US banking regulator abandons climate risk principles

    01 April 2025

    The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has "withdrawn its participation" in maintaining principles for climate risk management by large financial institutions in the US, which it argued were "overly burdensome and duplicative".

  • EU lawmakers agree vote on 'stopping-the-clock' on sustainability rules

    01 April 2025
  • UK pensions regulator aims to unlock 'latent demand' for net-zero investment

    01 April 2025
  • La Banque Postale releases first transition plan in line with CSRD

    31 March 2025