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BlackRock and Temasek's JV leads $150m funding round for thermal battery business

BlackRock and Temasek joint-venture, Decarbonization Partners, has led a $150 million Series B funding round for Antora Energy.

JETPs suffer from "insufficient new finance"

There are "insufficient quantities" of new finance for Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs), the Rockefeller Foundation has said, warning that the current structure faces "significant challenges".

Fund managers face SDR challenge to define 'sustainable', law firm says

Fund managers looking to adhere to the UK's forthcoming fund labelling and disclosure regime are to face a significant "subjectivity-related challenge" in determining what qualifies as sustainable, according to law firm Pinsent Masons.

World Economic Forum launches biodiversity credit platform amid predictions of $2bn market

Investors devise long wish list for much-maligned SFDR

Every financial product sold in the EU should be required to disclose sustainability information under the much-maligned Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), Europe's largest asset manager has said.

COP28: Clarity needed on biodiversity offsets, says TNC

More clarity is needed from governments on how biodiversity credits and offsets could work alongside each other, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has urged, ahead of the start of the latest international climate conference (COP28).

COP28: 'MDBs need to commit to developing debt-for-nature swaps'

At COP28, multilateral development banks (MDBs) need to commit to further developing the infrastructure of debt-for-nature swaps to help grow the market, The Nature Conservancy has said.

$300bn funding gap for sustainable land use, says McKinsey

To meet the growing global demand for food, 'urgent action' and investment of at least $300 billion is needed to transform land and farming practices, a report by McKinsey & Co has found.

WTW launches Asia-Pacific climate risk centre in Singapore

Japan embraces impact investing in pursuit of a 'new form of capitalism'

Prime minister Fumio Kishida is on a mission to harness impact investment to spur economic growth in Japan. How might it transform the market, asks Michael Hurley