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Banks continue to progress on seafood, says WWF

An assessment of 40 banks' public seafood policies found that most had made some progress from last year, according to WWF, which called for more blue labelled financial products to be issued.

Africa and LatAm commercial banks 'lag Asia on ESG'

Two reports by the WWF have found that commercial banks in Africa and Latin America are lagging behind their Asian peers when it comes to addressing critical environmental and social risks.

Call for regenerative agriculture standard, amid 'big risk of greenwashing'

Better standards and data collection are needed to combat the "big risk of greenwashing" in regenerative agriculture projects, a conference has heard.

Raise insurers' capital requirements for fossil fuel assets, EU urged

ECB urged to use 2025 policy review to 'green' its asset purchases

Nature scenarios need improvement, says NGFS

More investment is needed to improve scenario analysis for nature loss, the central banks and supervisors' Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) has said.

UK government should address legal issues in transition plan rules, WWF says

More coherence needed to scale nature finance, says UNEP FI, WWF

More coherence between governments, central banks and private financiers is needed to scale nature investment, a new report by the UN Environment Programme's Finance Initiative and WWF's Greening Financial Regulation Initiative has said.

'Loose' EFRAG transition plan guidance permits greenwashing, NGOs argue

COP29: Finance text draws criticism for missing 'elephant in the room' of numbers

The latest draft text of the centrepiece of COP29 negotiations has been criticised for failing to provide detail on the much-contested aspect of how much money countries commit to provide annually to climate mitigation and adaptation.