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World Bank launches food security group

The World Bank has launched a high-level thought leadership group to provide guidance and strategic advice on tackling food security.

Sustainable Debt Americas 2024 returns to New York next week

Environmental Finance's Sustainable Debt conference returns to New York next week, Thursday 19 September. Environmental Finance subscribers receive a 30% discount to attend.

G20 group calls for national transition plans ahead of COP29

IETA's CAD Trust to begin tracking Article 6

The CAD Trust, a partnership between IETA, the Singapore government and World Bank, is to expand its Article 6 offering, monitoring the carbon markets used to meet national emissions reductions.

Record orderbook for $6.5bn World Bank sustainable bond

The World Bank secured more than $22 billion in orders for its $6.5 billion dual-tranche Sustainable Development Bond (SDB), which the development bank said was the largest orderbook it has secured to date.

World Bank issues landmark Amazon reforestation-linked bond

The World Bank has raised $225 million from its biggest ever outcomes-based bond that links its coupon payments to verified carbon removal credits generated by reforestation projects in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

Aviva calls for NDCs to become national transition plans

Countries preparing their next set of climate targets should use it as an opportunity to prepare comprehensive, national climate transition plans that can plug into those being used by financial institutions, Aviva has urged.

Carbon pricing revenues exceeded $100bn in 2023, says World Bank

Revenues from carbon pricing exceeded $100 billion in 2023, the World Bank has found, but it warned policymakers are not moving fast enough to put a price on carbon.

MDBs set to increase GSSS commitments, Sustainable Fitch claims

World Bank releases 'game-changing' streamlined impact metrics

The World Bank has released a new impact outcomes 'scorecard' which will be deployed across all its institutions for the first time, which was described as "game-changing" for the development bank.