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Schroders launches Singapore natural capital investors

Schroders, in collaboration with Conservation International, has launched a natural capital-focused investment management company.

ECB mulls climate buffer as it warns of carbon-intensive 'fire sale'

Eurozone banks could be subject to a climate-related capital buffer as part of efforts to manage the risk of a disorderly energy transition, joint research by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) proposes.

The future of the Amazon depends on what happens on 2 October, 2022

Victory for Lula in Brazil's October election is necessary to achieve net zero deforestation in the Amazon - and investors will be watching, write Brian Hensley and Mark Fulton

UOB and HSBC make sustainable supply chain loans

MAS launches climate fintech programme

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has launched climate fintech programme, Point Carbon Zero, in collaboration with Google Cloud.

GHG 'accountability crisis' requires single standard

There is an "accountability crisis" around carbon emissions that can only be solved through government intervention and "mandatory disclosure", market experts warned.

Sustainalytics delivers most SPOs in first half of 2022

Sustainalytics provided the most second-party opinions (SPOs) for sustainable finance frameworks in the first half of 2022, according to Environmental Finance figures.

Oxford summit investors doubt if net zero pledges will decarbonise world at all

Finance sector net-zero pledges will likely have "no positive impact" on real economy decarbonisation, according to about one-third of investors and academic attendees at a specialist sustainable finance event.

Climate resilience taxonomy is CBI's 'next big project'

Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) is preparing a 'climate resilience taxonomy' after it updated its green bond methodology and published its social and sustainability bond methodology.

Companies with ESG ratings upgrades outperform sector, says Jefferies