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'Proxy voting is not dead'

This AGM season will reveal shareholders' climate resolve, writes Michael Hurley

Sustainable bond issuance falls 20% amid corporate, sovereign slump

Sustainable bond issuance volumes have fallen by more than a fifth in the first quarter of 2025 compared with the year prior, after corporate and sovereign issuance slumped by 40%.

NZBA ditches requirement to target 1.5°C alignment to give banks more 'flexibility'

The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) has approved changes to its framework to no longer require targeting 1.5°C alignment - instead allowing members to choose from "a wider range of net-zero pathways ... to limit global temperature rise to 'well below 2°C' and to strive for 1.5°C".

Nature based solutions: The opportunity for renewable energy investors

Embedding nature based solutions alongside renewables can unlock additional revenues from ecosystem services, write Hing Kin Lee and Valeria Ramos

Franklin Templeton launches two ESG-focused ETFs

Franklin Templeton has added two sustainability-focused index-tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to its range.

RMS to pilot ecosystem integrity index later this year

Forestry and timberland investor Resource Management Service (RMS) is to pilot an ecosystem integrity index developed by RSK Wilding later this year.

ABC Impact closes second fund at $600m

Patrizia invests $350m in Asian sustainable cooling infrastructure business

DPI launches VC business, restructuring Egypt's $105m Nclude Fund

Buyers of biodiversity credits 'yet to emerge'

There is still no willingness to buy biodiversity credits, but biodiversity co-benefits continue to dominate carbon credit prices, a project developer has told Environmental Finance.