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Lloyds launches UK food and nature resilience fund

Lloyds Banking Group and regenerative farming business Wildfarmed have launched a fund to transition the UK farming sector to more nature-positive practices.

Lloyds provides £500m sustainability-linked loan to retrofit UK universities

US market is the only place to find greenium, says BlackRock (Debt conference)

The US is the only market in which green bond issuers can find a 'greenium', the pricing perk an issuer gets for issuing a green rather than a conventional bond, a conference has heard.

Sustainable Debt EMEA returns to London next week

Environmental Finance's 14th annual Sustainable Debt EMEA conference returns to London on 23 April.

Will 2026 be the 'Year of Transition Debt'?

There is optimism for the label after guidance provided 'comfort and confidence' to the market, but the focus should be on demonstrating well-supported action rather than just ambition. Ahren Lester reports

Landmark biodiversity assessment warns of danger to financial stability

The first global assessment of how businesses and financial institutions are impacting biodiversity issued a call to financial institutions to step-up engagement on the topic.

IPBES 12: Industry welcomes global biodiversity assessments

Global insurers and banks have welcomed moves to assess the impacts and dependencies of businesses on biodiversity and nature at the latest Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) conference.

Why banks are back in the carbon markets

Growing confidence and policy support is driving banks' action in the carbon markets. Genevieve Redgrave reports

Lloyds launches loans for sustainable farming

Lloyds in talks on nature bonds

Lloyds Bank has revealed to Environmental Finance that it is working with its clients on how to issue a nature bond.