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Sustainalytics brings in four-tier SPOs, in significant overhaul of framework

Morningstar Sustainalytics has overhauled its framework for issuing second-party opinions (SPOs) on green bonds and other use of proceeds bonds, Environmental Finance has learned.

Does the EU's Omnibus reduce transition planning to a publicity exercise?

Experts are divided over what a change in wording in the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive means for climate transition plans, Michael Hurley reports

COP16 negotiations end in 'landmark' deal for financing

The reconvened talks ended with a transformative deal on financial mobilisation, with the private sector urged to increase its contributions to a global fund, writes Genevieve Redgrave

People Moves, 28 February: Osmosis; Lightrock; UKSIF; Schroders Greencoat ... and more

EU Omnibus: Investors left to ask what corporate reporting cuts mean for SFDR

Investors face a waiting game to know whether cuts to corporate reporting will leave them short of the information they need under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), with the result of a review of the latter not expected until the end of this year.

Natural Capital Investment EMEA returns on Tuesday

Environmental Finance's 6th annual Natural Capital Investment EMEA conference returns to London on 4 March.

EU Omnibus: 'Investors will be left in the dark' by CSRD cuts, voluntary taxonomy reporting

Proposals to require only the largest companies to report on the EU taxonomy and to cut the scope of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) have fuelled concerns that investors will be deprived of sustainability data, as the EU unveiled its controversial 'simplification' package.

NaFin issues 'pioneering' Mexican Taxonomy-aligned sustainable bond

Mexican development bank Nacional Financiera (NaFin) has raised MXN12.2 billion ($596 million) from a sustainability bond, becoming one of the first transactions to have aligned with the Mexican Taxonomy.

People Moves, 21 February: Bezos Earth Fund; Ninety One; South Pole; CIP ... and more

EU targets private capital in new agriculture strategy

Private investment and nature credits are focal points of the European Commission's new 'vision' for agriculture.