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Banque de France launches scientific partnership to scale nature finance

Bpifrance returns to ICMA format for €1.5bn green bond

Bpifrance has raised €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) from a seven-year green bond, marking the French national investment bank's third benchmark debt issuance of any kind in 2026 ...

Making green guarantees profitable

The Green Guarantee Company has inked its first deals as it looks to prove the instruments can move beyond the public sector, Christopher Bredholt tells Mathilde Dorbessan

Garanti BBVA issues €30m green bond for sustainable agriculture in Türkiye

CSRD 'simplification' saga nears end with adoption of EU standards

Observers have welcomed the adoption of heavily reduced European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), a development they said would accelerate preparations for implementation following almost two years of uncertainty.

Supervisors consult on cuts to taxonomy indicators to 'simplify' reporting

Cuts have been proposed to indicators that financial institutions must use to report their alignment with the EU taxonomy of sustainable activities, in consultations by the bloc's three supervisory authorities.

Green Guarantee Company secures €32m to expand climate guarantees

The Green Guarantee Company (GGC) has secured €32 million ($36.6 million) from KfW to expand its guarantee capacity for climate projects in emerging markets and developing economies.

US-Iran conflict shows NGFS assumptions 'don't hold' amid fragmented transition

Idiosyncratic policy responses to disruption from the US-Iran conflict show that old assumptions around the climate transition "don't hold anymore" and require a rethink of widely used scenarios, an expert argued.

French local government lender to start issuing green and social bonds

French local government lender Agence France Locale (AFL) has updated its sustainable finance framework, enabling it to issue standalone green and social bonds alongside sustainability bonds.