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Local currency loans should be impact 'norm'

Local currency hedging is "becoming the norm" among frontier and emerging market impact investors, according to Cardano Development.

Banks urged to rework financing instruments for climate adaptation

"Considerable effort" is needed to develop climate adaptation and resilience finance in a "practical and actionable manner," but existing tools such as green bonds could be adjusted by the private sector ...

COP27: Investor alliance spurs Indonesian deforestation action

The Investor Policy Dialogue on Deforestation (IPDD) has helped create a sustainability partnership with key financial actors in Indonesia that it is claimed could prevent the destruction of forests.

Biodiversity to become a 'main focus' for Dutch pension funds

Biodiversity appears set to become one of the environmental priorities for pension funds in the Netherlands, a survey has found.

Natural capital accounting report published

ThomasLloyd hire ADB's Nakhooda as head of impact

Impact investor Silverstrand backs agribusiness firm

Sovereign sustainability-linked debt initiative launched

A World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB)-backed initiative to "catalyse" sovereign sustainability-linked debt issuance has been launched to provide technical support to increase the volume, quality and impact of such issuances.

China Green Bond Principles will 'ensure place in global market'

China has published its own green bond principles (GBP) broadly based on the standard administered by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA)...

Spatial data key to tackling nature-climate 'nexus', paper says