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EXCLUSIVE: BNP Paribas AM launches environmental infrastructure fund

BNP Paribas Asset Management has exclusively revealed to Environmental Finance that it will be launching an environmental infrastructure fund.

Webinar: 'Sustainability practitioners need to talk the bottom line for sustainability to become strategy'

Sustainability practitioners in the Middle East need to be able to talk about what impact sustainability can have on the 'bottom line' for it to become more mainstream and to drive growth in the region, an Environmental Finance webinar heard.

UK's National Wealth Fund mobilises £16bn, refocusing additionality

The UK's National Wealth Fund has mobilised £16.2 billion ($21.6 billion) of private capital investment in the past four years, its first impact report has said.

Europe must unlock transition credits to accelerate coal-to-clean shift

The EU's emissions trading system is not only a domestic compliance instrument — it can also be a platform for Europe's global influence, writes Joseph Curtin

DEI backlash puts inclusion back on the agenda (ESG Data conference)

The DEI backlash seen in the US has created a shift towards more 'inclusion' not less, several investors have claimed.

Sustainable debt round-up: Public Investment Fund, INWIT, CTP ... and more

'Overwhelming response' to debut SLB from Thai state power firm

Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) has raised TBH2 billion ($61 million) from its debut sustainability-linked bond (SLB), with the deal also including a rare step-down coupon if the state-owned firm achieves its target.

Growing pipeline for 'unique' green repos

A recent transaction by Banco do Brasil has reinforced the potential value of green repos for scaling sustainable finance, according to Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (CA-CIB).

ESMA publishes final report on EuGB external review standards

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report on the rules governing external reviewers of 'European Green Bonds' (EuGB) issued under the EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS).

EU ESG ratings regulation watered down amid 'burden reduction' drive

The standards constituting the EU's ESG Ratings regulation have been 'simplified' to meet the EU's "burden reduction" initiative, meaning providers will be given more flexibility in the information they must provide about their methodologies, the EU's securities regulator revealed.