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Australian green bond framework includes biodiversity, climate adaptation

The Australian sovereign green bond framework has included climate adaptation and nature projects among its eligible activities alongside the more familiar climate mitigation projects, as the country moves closer to its mid-2024 market debut.

COP28: Amundi launches European agriculture fund

EU member states back extension of net-zero investment act to cover nuclear, aviation fuel

People Moves, 8 December: General Atlantic, ISSB, ImpactA Global ... and more

TNFD and IBAT provide open-access biodiversity map

COP28: carnival of chaos

The climate negotiations have become a sideshow at the world's biggest sustainable finance conference, writes Peter Cripps

TNFD introduces initial footprinting guidance for FIs

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has proposed guidance for how to report for eight sectors, and preliminary guidance on biodiversity footprinting for financial institutions.

Two-year delay to CSRD sector-specific reporting agreed by parliamentary committee

A two-year delay to reporting in line with sector-specific standards under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) has been agreed by the EU parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee.

EU Parliament, Council reach building energy performance deal

Simplify 'excessively complex' EU sustainable finance framework, EBF urges