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Global Covid-19 stimulus hurting environment, says report

Governments have failed to harness the opportunity of combining the $15 trillion in stimulus packages announced in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic with sustainable growth initiatives, according to a report by Vivid Economics and Finance for Biodiversity (F4B).

News Round Up: EU Just Transition, Sustaintech Xcelerator

News Round Up: CDSB, KPMG, Finance for Biodiversity, and more

News round-up: Investors go to work on deforestation, DFIs go fossil fuel-free

€1.8trn of investors urge companies to tackle deforestation

F4B develops framework for combating biodiversity 'destruction'

Financial institutions should disclose their impacts on biodiversity and be made legally liable for them, according to a new blueprint for a financial system that doesn't harm nature.

Green bonds begin to flow from emerging market banks

A pioneering initiative by the IFC to encourage green bond issuance by banks in emerging markets is bearing fruit, reports Graham Cooper

Dutch impact investor raises €55m for second fund

Social Impact Ventures has raised €55 million ($64 million) at first close of its second impact fund and has rebranded as Rubio Impact Ventures.

Biodiversity accounting initiative outlines initial guidelines

A report endorsed by banks and asset managers has laid out a common approach to measuring positive impact on biodiversity.

Bond round-up: Unédic, Snam, Castle Peak, Northern States Power, Symbiotics ... and more

Bailout funding should have environmental strings attached

The trillions of dollars of public funding being made available to help companies recover from the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic should be conditional on sustainability commitments, say Vivid Economics and the Finance for Biodiversity Initiative.