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National Wealth Fund must bridge UK transition financing gap, says Phoenix

The UK's National Wealth Fund needs to bridge the financing gap between transition-focused local infrastructure projects and institutional investors, one of the UK's biggest pension providers has argued.

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).

'World first' carbon credit standard launched

Clime Capital leads Series A for Vietnamese solar business

People Moves, 21 March: EQT, Transition Finance Council, Danske Bank, EIFO ... and more

Elbow Beach launches £80m second climate impact fund

SBTi proposed standard update does not allow carbon credits for Scope 3

A proposed update to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) standard allows only limited use of carbon credits - despite a previous suggestion it might take a more accommodative stance towards them for Scope 3 emissions.

The impact of SDR goes deeper than its four sustainability labels

The FCA's Sustainability Disclosure Requirements regime is helping purge the fund market, writes Jennifer Forrest

Nordea awarded €800m French pension fund decarb mandate

French asset owners launch search for private markets biodiversity fund manager

A group of French asset owners has launched a process to select the manager of a €150 million ($160 million) private markets biodiversity fund.