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Debt-for-nature swaps get guidance to support scalability, project expansion

The first 'practice standards' for the rapidly growing 'debt-for-nature' swaps has been published, which looks to introduce greater consistency in the bespoke instruments...

Pioneering Poland returns to green bond market after six-year hiatus

Poland has raised €1.25 billion ($1.5 billion) from its first green bond since 2019, nine years after the central European country became the first sovereign sustainable bond issuer.

GIST Impact to integrate Biodiversity Intactness Index

Nature and impact data company GIST Impact is set to integrate the UK Natural History Museum's Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) into its nature and biodiversity products.

UNDP targets $200m for blended finance tiger landscapes fund

ECB adds nature-related risk reference for first time in monetary policy strategy

The European Central Bank (ECB) has identified nature degradation alongside climate risk for the first time in its monetary policy strategy, signalling that it is a topic it is monitoring for impacts on price stability in the Eurozone.

UK pension fund to invest £25m in upcoming nature 'infra' fund

The West Yorkshire Pension Fund (WYPF) has committed £25 million ($34 million) into a cornerstone portfolio of Rebalance Earth's upcoming nature-based 'infrastructure' fund.

TNFD, KPMG, UNDP launch nature insurance programme

Make mine a double! The sustainability reporting materiality debate

The UK should seek a 'double materiality' reporting approach, writes Sarah Wilkin

Fossil fuel underwriting curbs are effective but implementation is patchy, study shows

"We need net-zero commitments to cover your underwriting portfolios, and this should include coal and all fossil fuels," UN Secretary-General António Guterres told insurers in 2021.

Nobody will fight hard to save 'ESG', says Morningstar

Asset owners will move on to other ways to label their ESG investments, although they will have learned of the issues that another all-inclusive term could bring, according to Morningstar.