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NBIM buys £330m stake in wind farm from Macquarie fund

GSAM backs SLBs with step-downs

A major sustainable bond investor has urged investors and asset owners to seriously consider sustainability-linked bonds (SLB) with a step-down coupon on achieving or outperforming targets, as it is a "better structure" for the performance-based instrument.

Issuers should 'use more Opex in green bonds,' says GSAM

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) said green bond issuers should look to use more operational expenditures (Opex) in their use-of-proceeds allocation to help grow the market.

Emerging market sustainable bond investment momentum building

Investors and issuers are responding to the challenges EM sustainable bonds pose, and the tide is turning in their favour. Ahren Lester reports

Agriculture investments "forcing nature to its knees"

The impact of food systems is the "biggest problem in the world", according to Ocean 14 Capital's Chris Gorell Barnes, who urged investors and policymakers to step back from damaging industry practices.

Investors call for ramping up of ocean biodiversity data coverage

A group of large global investors has called on ESG data providers to develop better coverage of ocean biodiversity to help manage risks and meet the wider goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework.

The complexities of applying the EU's CBAM to aluminium producers

Emissions linked to electricity consumption in aluminium production are currently not included in the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism's calculations, writes Juliette de Valence

Border to Coast, Royal London AM list banking sector just transition expectations

Asset owners slow to set recommended decarbonisation targets, PAAO report reveals

Several signatories to the Paris Aligned Asset Owners (PAAO) initiative have been flagged for being slow to set some of the recommended decarbonisation targets, as it published its first progress update.

NZAOA laments governments' lack of progress on carbon pricing