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  • Helios raises $200m for African green energy businesses at first close

    31 July 2024

  • India plans climate finance taxonomy

    24 July 2024

    India's Ministry of Finance has announced funding to create a taxonomy to attract climate finance, spanning adaptation and mitigation activities.

  • M&G increases commitment for responAbility's gender-focused fund

    02 July 2024

  • New ICMA metrics could help 'accelerate' biodiversity finance

    01 July 2024

    An influential list of key performance indicators (KPIs) deemed appropriate for structuring sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) has been updated - with the newly added metrics dominated by biodiversity-related datapoints, reflecting keen investor interest in the theme.

  • ICMA, LMA release 'sustainability-linked loan bond' guidance

    25 June 2024

    Two debt industry bodies have jointly published guidance for the issuance of bonds dedicated to financing sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) in order to develop a new sustainable finance product and support the credibility of the performance-based lending instrument.

  • WBCSD publishes avoided emissions guidance

    24 June 2024

    The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has urged investors not to use avoided emissions to claim carbon neutrality, in its recently published "first guidance" for private markets on avoided emissions calculation and reporting standards.

  • People Moves, 21 June: GEF, TNFD, GRI, S&P Trucost, UBS ... and more

    21 June 2024

  • General Atlantic's BeyondNetZero acquires significant stake in SDCL

    11 June 2024

    Private equity giant General Atlantic has acquired a 24.9% shareholding in Sustainable Development Capital (SDCL), having invested an undisclosed sum from its climate growth fund, BeyondNetZero.

  • IDB: Brazil 'green' foreign exchange hub is scalable and impactful

    30 May 2024

    A senior adviser to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is working on making its 'green' foreign exchange (FX) hub launched with Brazil earlier this year scalable for other countries as a means to reduce hedging costs for investors and boosting sustainable investment to emerging markets.

  • Bond round-up: AfDB, Verbund, IDB Invest ... and more

    22 May 2024