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  • M&G's $3bn EMD fund bolsters ESG credentials with Norges Bank Exclusions

    31 July 2025

    The $3.1 billion M&G Emerging Markets Bond fund will introduce an additional layer of ESG oversight with the addition of the Norges Bank Exclusions from August.

  • MUFG's blended GAIA fund set to close by early Autumn

    31 July 2025

    MUFG's GAIA fund, a climate and blended finance platform launched in 2023 with a fundraising target of almost $1.5 billion, is set to close by early Autumn, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • Change to CSRD materiality test brings standards closer to ISSB, says EFRAG

    31 July 2025

    'Simplified' European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) that cut current datapoints by 68% have been published for consultation that EU advisers claim will bring them closer to International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards.

  • France Valley opens €150m European timber fund

    31 July 2025

    France Valley has opened its €150 million ($171 million) pan-European timber fund to new institutional investors.

  • UK ETS expansion key to financing carbon removal tech, says South Pole

    31 July 2025

    Expansion of the UK's emissions trading scheme (ETS) is key to "unlocking" finance for emerging carbon removal technologies, according to South Pole.

  • US sustainable investor 'comfort' with hard-to-abate sectors a 'good signal'

    31 July 2025

    The greater willingness of US sustainable investors to consider high-emitting and hard-to-abate issuers in their portfolios is a "good signal" that the critical investment market is actively looking to innovate, according to BNP Paribas.

  • ECB's climate collateral policy is small change, says non-profit

    31 July 2025

  • Walmart, Amazon, Costco 'have biggest biodiversity impact'

    31 July 2025

    Some of the world's largest food and beverage companies have been identified as having the largest biodiversity footprint, ...

  • Exclusive: Iceberg 'completes' biodiversity footprint tool

    31 July 2025

    As Iceberg Data Lab expands its biodiversity footprinting tool, CEO Matthieu Maurin tells Genevieve Redgrave why supply chains and commodities are its next area of focus

  • Vietnam's VPBank secures $350m loan from international backers

    30 July 2025