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Sustainable bond pricing perk 'not enough' for emerging market issuers
12 March 2021A webinar organised by Environmental Finance and the IFC heard from emerging market issuers of green, social and sustainability bonds about their experiences. Ahren Lester reports
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Pakistan explores issuing first sovereign 'nature performance bond'
26 February 2021Pakistan could become the first sovereign to issue a nature performance bond, it has been revealed.
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IFC tightens coal phase-out conditions on financial clients
22 September 2020The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has strengthened its approach to thermal coal investment exposure among its financial institution clients, announcing it will not make equity investments in firms that do not have a phase-out plan in place.
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QBE impact investments pass $900m
17 September 2020QBE has almost reached its goal of $1 billion in impact investments by next year, using its Premiums4Good programme.
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IFC says 'impact' portfolio outperformed by 15% since 1961
03 September 2020The International Finance Corporation (IFC) says a first-of-its-kind study on the performance of every equity impact investment it has ever made shows the entire portfolio delivered 15% higher returns than comparable, non-impact investments.
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'Blue bonds' could finance fish stock recovery
24 August 2020Planet Tracker has proposed a 'blue bond' could be used to finance the replenishment of fish stocks by subsidising fishing firms to reduce capacity to allow population recovery.
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BlueOrchard sees strong H1 despite Covid-19
30 July 2020Impact investment manager BlueOrchard has reported a strong first-half performance, despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures working group announced
21 July 2020Ten financial firms have joined a working group to develop a reporting framework for the impact of the financial sector on biodiversity and ecosystems to complement the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
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Environmental Finance's webinar - Renewable energy: mapping out the next investment push
21 July 2020Join our webinars each Tuesday 10:00 EF / 15:00 BST
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IFC elected chair of GBP/SBP excom
06 July 2020The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has been elected chair of the executive committee (excom) of the green, social and sustainability-linked bond principles