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  • Reforestation credit partnership launched

    09 August 2024
  • Six ways to transition to safer, more sustainable chemicals

    08 August 2024

    The UN Global Framework on Chemicals provides a roadmap for investors on shifting away from harmful chemicals, write Caroline Boden, Rachel Crossley and Alexandra MacPherson

  • Analysts need to be 'sanity check' for AI, says Iceberg

    05 August 2024

    Amidst the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in sustainability data provision, Iceberg Data Labs has predicted a growing role for analysts acting as an 'expert eye' for the emerging technology.

  • ESG ratings, proxy advisors and EU regulation target of US politicians' criticism

    05 August 2024

    US Republican Party politicians have called for stricter regulatory oversight of ESG ratings providers and proxy advisors, and for the "protection" of US companies from burdensome EU regulations, in a report criticising how investors consider ESG factors.

  • Investors tell Japan to remedy inconsistencies with ISSB standards

    02 August 2024

    Some of the world's largest investors have advised Japan to address inconsistencies between its draft disclosure standards and those of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).

  • India plans climate finance taxonomy

    24 July 2024

    India's Ministry of Finance has announced funding to create a taxonomy to attract climate finance, spanning adaptation and mitigation activities.

  • A tropical forests mechanism can help scale-up financing to protect the world's forests

    24 July 2024

    The proposed mechanism could attract and deploy financial resources to countries committed to forest conservation, write Pedro Moura Costa, Tasso Azevedo and Ilona Szabó

  • Environmental Finance launches 2024 ESG Data Guide

    09 July 2024

    Environmental Finance has launched this year's ESG Data Guide, featuring some of the industry's leading ESG data providers and most innovative solutions.

  • Nature data - overwhelmingly complex, but a need-to-know

    09 July 2024

    Amid rapidly growing demand for nature data, changing investor requirements and artificial intelligence will shift the market, writes Genevieve Redgrave

  • Financial institutions' physical risks could be underestimated by 70%

    04 July 2024

    An EU-funded study has warned that European financial institutions' physical climate risk assessments are inadequate, and could be underestimating 'value at risk' by up to 70%.