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Big Nature Impact Fund raises £65m after narrowing focus

Finance Earth's fund has finally reached a first close, with a refreshed remit and institutional investor backing. Genevieve Redgrave reports

Sustainable Debt EMEA returns to London next week

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

Sustainable debt round-up: TenneT, Nordea, Emirates NBD ... and more

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

Emirates NBD: 'Banks need to share what we see as credible transition metrics'

Commercial banks have been encouraged to start publicly sharing the transition metrics they consider are "credible" for companies in critical hard-to-abate sectors to help the market identify "what good looks like" in transition finance.

Sustainable bonds could be 'killer app' for digital bond technology

The sustainable bond market should make digital bond structures the norm for transactions, Razvan Dumitrescu tells Ahren Lester

'Blue bonds are next big wave in sustainable finance'

'Blue bonds' are the most international and resilient sustainable finance asset class in a politically charged world, and highly scalable even among corporates, according to Emirates NBD.

Emirates NBD issues pioneering $1bn blue, green bond

Emirates NBD has raised $1 billion from a dual-tranche 'blue' and green bond transaction, which demonstrates the growing demand for blue finance.

Sustainable debt round-up: Emirates NBD, Adnoc, SSEN Transmission ... and more

TNFD, two years on: difficult but useful

Financial institutions are beginning to integrate findings from TNFD reporting into their products, but tell Genevieve Redgrave that data remains a challenge for more sophisticated reporting