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ICMA Principles gives green light to 'nature bond' label

The body that lays out best practices for the sustainable bond market has issued guidelines to help scale up nature-themed bonds, and has given its blessing to the use of a 'nature bond' label.

'Bankability' key to unlocking capital for APAC region's sustainable infra projects

Many sustainable infrastructure projects in Asia-Pacific are struggling to attract investment because they lack 'bankability', attendees at an Environmental Finance conference heard.

No transition without 'just transition', says Nomura's Mortimer

A 'just transition' is essential to achieving the Paris Agreement's climate goals, Nomura International's Jason Mortimer told attendees at Environmental Finance's Sustainable Debt Asia 2025.

Objective of labelled bond market should not be more labels, says Schroders

The market for labelled bonds should be focused on financing activities and not necessarily growing the number of bond labels, an Environmental Finance conference heard.

Corporates could become big issuers of 'adaptation' debt, APAC conference hears

From Rob Langston in Singapore

Winners of Environmental Finance's Sustainable Investment Awards 2025 revealed

The winners of Environmental Finance's annual Sustainable Investment Awards 2025 have been announced.

Sustainable debt round-up: EIB's record orderbook, RWE, Nigeria and more

Stone Harbor launches $10m emerging market sustainable bond fund

US asset manager Stone Harbor has launched a labelled sustainable bond-focused emerging market (EM) fund, which has more exposure to issues from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) than any other country.

Nigerian sovereign green bond return nearly twice oversubscribed

The orderbook for the first Nigeria sovereign green bond in almost six years was almost twice the offered amount as the country emphasised that these instruments will become "increasingly important" to the issuer.

Tokyo Metropolitan Government plots €300m resilience bond

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to launch a €300 million ($344 million) 'resilience bond' this autumn, aimed at tackling storm and flood risk, Environmental Finance has learned.