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Nature goes mainstream - Welcome the TNFD

Today's launch of the TNFD is an important step towards ensuring financial flows are redirected to make a positive contribution to nature, writes Simon Zadek

Financing at the climate-nature nexus

Nature and climate are scientifically intertwined, but are not the same, argues Simon Zadek

Natural Capital Investment 2021 conference roundup

Environmental Finance's Natural Capital Investment 2021 virtual conference has ended after a full day of panels, speed networking sessions, and a live discussion group

Pakistan explores issuing first sovereign 'nature performance bond'

Pakistan could become the first sovereign to issue a nature performance bond, it has been revealed.

Comment: Follow the Money in aligning finance with nature's needs

In the first of his monthly columns for Environmental Finance, Simon Zadek outlines his five-point proposal for aligning major financial flows with nature outcomes

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

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.

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.