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Uruguay has published its framework for a 'game-changing' sovereign sustainability-linked bond (SLB), which incorporates ground-breaking nature targets and coupon structures.

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.

The US government has published its draft plan to integrate natural capital accounting into the broader national economic statistical system, in response rising pressure from the private sector to develop such data.

The EU has become the largest sustainable bond issuer in the world, with total issuance by the bloc surpassing €119 billion ($141 billion) in less than two years.

The World Bank has found that less than 4% of global emissions are currently covered by a direct carbon price within the range needed by 2030, despite a year of record growth for Emission Trading Schemes (ETSs).

A public index to compare the social impact of 72 microfinance institutions (MFIs) will be released in June, in the world's first microfinance social inclusion index.

Colombia has become the first American country to publish a national 'green' taxonomy, with the list of sustainable activities also including a ground-breaking emphasis on land use.

Investors seeking 'additionality' should be excited by the ground-breaking 'rhino' bond, the World Bank tells Ahren Lester

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) has raised $150 million from a ground-breaking 'pay-for-success' sustainable development bond to support rhino conservation in South Africa.

Malaysian banks are exposed to sectors which face high nature-related financial risks, the country's central bank has warned.