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Difficult to strike the risk-reward balance on nature, says GenZero

Investors still face difficulties finding nature investment opportunities that deliver an acceptable risk-reward balance, GenZero has said, as it called for more blended finance options.

A tropical forests mechanism can help scale-up financing to protect the world's forests

The proposed mechanism could attract and deploy financial resources to countries committed to forest conservation, write Pedro Moura Costa, Tasso Azevedo and Ilona Szabó

Barclays urges government to make UK 'destination of choice' for climate tech

The UK can potentially 'leapfrog' other markets and become the "destination of choice" for climate tech companies critical for the transition to a net zero carbon economy, according to Barclays.

UK told to accelerate ISSB adoption

CT responsible strategy to apply for sustainability focus label under UK SDR

CT responsible strategy sells down CrowdStrike following 'embarrassing' outage

Columbia Threadneedle's Responsible Global Equity Strategy trimmed its position in CrowdStrike following the "bluescreen of death" debacle last week but said the investment case has not been eradicated.

SLLP consider formalising 'sleeping SLL' guardrails

The Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles (SLLP) are preparing to formalise treatment of so-called 'sleeping SLLs' in its upcoming revision, including formalising "guardrails" to ensure these contested but "useful tools" are credible.

Australia urged to integrate biodiversity into taxonomy

The Australian government has been urged to integrate the Global Biodiversity Framework's (GBF) targets into its planned sustainable finance taxonomy.

S&P stops giving ESG scores to Indian companies covered by SEBI rules

Oil and gas called on to fund tropical forest protection in new mechanism

Resource-intensive sectors have been called upon to fund the protection of tropical forests in the Amazon, Congo region and southeast Asia within a newly designed payment mechanism.