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Landbanking Group creates new nature asset class

The Landbanking Group has created a model for a new nature asset class, which aims to put a value on any nature uplift within forests.

Jury still out on impact investors adopting AI, says GIIN

The incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into impact investing processes continues to gather mixed responses, according to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).

ING optimistic of recovery for sustainable debt supply in 2025

The sustainable debt market is "struggling to gain momentum" this year amid higher interest rates and a lack of 'greenium', according to ING, but the Dutch bank is optimistic that issuance could be "invigorated" in 2025.

Profusion of transition plan assessments risks muddying waters, WBA says

The proliferation of several competing methods for judging the credibility of companies' transition plans risks confusing investors, the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) warned as it unveiled its own guidance on the topic.

EFRAG agrees partnership to promote 'inequality and social-related financial disclosures'

BNP Paribas, HSBC back green hydrogen business with £22m

IFVI to publish five methodologies next month

The International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) is to launch a series of methodologies focused on air pollution, land use, waste and water pollution next month.

ING updates green bond framework for the first time since 2022

ING updates net zero assessment approach

ING has added the dairy and aluminium sectors to its Terra approach for steering companies in its lending portfolio to net zero by 2050, and highlighted the steel and residential real estate sectors as requiring further work.

ING further restricts upstream oil & gas financing

ING has further tightened its restrictions on financing the oil and gas sector, although one NGO branded the development as being "of little value".