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  • UK financial institutions 'much more' engaged with TNFD than corporates

    12 January 2023

    UK-based financial institutions have shown "much more engagement" with developing the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) recommendations than corporates,...

  • Sustainable finance: key themes for regulation and policy in 2023

    06 January 2023

    The year ahead could be dominated by ESG-related regulation and progress on sustainability data initiatives, Michael Hurley writes

  • COP15 text is foundation for private sector work on metrics, LGIM says

    20 December 2022

    The agreement by countries at COP15 to protect 30% of land and sea biodiversity by 2030 is likely to leave private sector initiatives to do much of the heavy lifting in areas such as devising nature-related metrics and targets, a large asset manager has said.

  • My first biodiversity COP

    19 December 2022

    Thomas Cox provides a snapshot of a day at the COP15 conference in Montreal

  • COP15: Germany grants €29m to TNFD

    16 December 2022

    Montreal: The German government announced €29 million ($31 million) of support for the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) at COP15, to support development and adoption of nature-related disclosures.

  • COP15 agreement 'not only road' to nature transparency

    13 December 2022

    Montreal: Financial institutions will have to report on their nature risks regardless of the outcome of COP15 due to nature-related action from central banks, an executive at Rabobank has said.

  • TNFD publishes pilot nature scenario 'narratives'

    04 November 2022

    The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has published nature scenarios it said market participants can begin using to plot progress along four potential futures.

  • Asset managers: TNFD must not 'water down' standards

    24 October 2022

    The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) diluting its standard to make it more accessible would endanger its credibility, impact-focused asset managers have said.

  • Nature scenarios without climate would be 'a disaster'

    14 October 2022

    The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures' (TNFD) forthcoming nature scenarios must integrate climate considerations, or risk creating "a disaster", the head of NGO NatureFinance has said.

  • EFRAG to sign cooperation agreement with TNFD

    13 October 2022

    EFRAG is expected to sign a cooperation agreement with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and has engaged in "informal discussions" to align ESRS E4 on biodiversity with the TNFD framework, EFRAG sustainability reporting board (SRB) members heard at a meeting today (12 October).