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  • About 2,700 companies subject to California climate risk rule, Ceres estimates

    12 March 2025

    Almost 2,700 companies are set to be subject to California rules that require them to say how climate change poses risks to their global operations, in alignment with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Ceres has estimated.

  • 'Investors need to be ready to challenge policymakers on sustainable ag'

    05 March 2025

    Investors should be more forceful in advocacy work with policymakers who are preparing to row back funding to promote more sustainable agriculture practices, Environmental Finance's Natural Capital Investment EMEA 2025 conference heard.

  • Opinions mixed over regen ag standards that could help prevent greenwashing

    04 March 2025

    Wider adoption of standards in regen agriculture could help prevent greenwashing but some investors fail to see the benefits, attendees at Environmental Finance's Natural Capital Investment EMEA 2025 conference heard.

  • Nature reporting's bias to financial materiality focus 'is a problem'

    04 March 2025

    Most nature-related financial reporting has a bias of focusing more on the business impacts of nature loss than companies' impacts on biodiversity, Environmental Finance's Natural Capital Investment EMEA 2025 conference in London has heard.

  • Keep an eye out for 'nature positive' greenwashing, says ISS ESG

    03 March 2025

    Lack of clarity over the term 'nature positive' means the market needs to "keep an eye out" for greenwashing, ISS ESG has warned, as it gears up to make it a flagship research theme.

  • CBAM delayed and exclusions announced

    27 February 2025

    The European Commission has confirmed that implementation of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will be delayed until 2027, with 90% of importers also exempted from its scope.

  • Natural Capital Investment EMEA returns on Tuesday

    27 February 2025

    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

    26 February 2025

    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.

  • EU targets private capital in new agriculture strategy

    19 February 2025

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

  • Biodiversity funds suffer outflows in 2024

    14 February 2025

    Despite overall assets within the biodiversity fund universe growing in 2024, many established funds suffered from significant outflows.