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Biodiversity data tool map finds key imbalances
27 March 2025The Nature Tech Collective and Conservation International have partnered to launch a map of biodiversity data tools on the market, finding that key imbalances remain with some technologies failing to meet their "full potential".
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Taxonomy cuts to 'significantly damage' sustainable investment market, warn EU advisers
26 March 2025The EU has been warned by its expert advisers that proposed cuts to its sustainability taxonomy will have negative 'ripple effects' on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and constrain the market for sustainable and transition investments.
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Reliance on taxonomy would be ill-advised in overhauled SFDR, ICMA tells EU
25 March 2025The EU has been warned against a 'potentially reductionist approach' overly relying on its taxonomy at the expense of the theme of transition in an overhauled Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA).
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Exclusive: NatureAlpha overhauls nature data offering amid 'unbelievable' AI improvements
24 March 2025Data tech start-up NatureAlpha has upgraded its Geoverse data platform, helped by the "unbelievable" improvements in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI).
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'AI could offer better green bond impact and incentives from day one'
21 March 2025Artificial intelligence (AI) could provide an opportunity for green bonds to become "more incentivising and transparent" around impact from the very earliest structuring phase,...
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ISS preparing sustainability bond rating
21 March 2025ISS STOXX is readying a 'sustainability bond rating' that it says will help investors analyse the sustainability impact and risks of labelled bonds ...
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FoSDA appoints former CFA UK CEO as first exec director
20 March 2025The Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) has appointed former CFA UK chief executive Will Goodhart as its first executive director.
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Omnibus bolsters case for requiring double materiality in EU ESG ratings, investor says
19 March 2025The case for changing the EU ESG ratings regulation to require ratings to use a 'double materiality' assessment was strengthened by proposed cuts to corporate sustainability reporting rules, according to Algebris Investments.
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CSRD guidance for real estate being readied to help in absence of sector-specific standards
18 March 2025The real estate sector is devising its own guidance on the most relevant datapoints to disclose under EU rules, as the bloc proposes to abandon work to develop sector-specific standards.
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Omnibus CSRD cuts threaten investor access to sustainability data, Dutch regulator says
18 March 2025The Dutch financial markets supervisor has urged companies to continue reporting sustainability information in line with the current version of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), as it warned that EU proposals to change the CSRD threatened investor access to data.