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  • EU Commission launches nature credit programme to scale private finance

    07 July 2025

    The European Commission has launched a programme to scale nature credits in the EU in a bid to ramp up private investment into nature recovery.

  • Creating products with positive nature impact still 'challenging', says Triodos IM

    04 July 2025

    Creating financial products which deliver positive impacts for nature and biodiversity is still "challenging", according to Triodos Investment Management, as it prepares a natural capital fund with Fondaction.

  • We lack 'necessary tools' to understand implications of nature degradation, warns ECB

    04 July 2025

    The European Central Bank (ECB) has warned that data gaps are hindering its efforts to assess the "worrying" implications of nature degradation when setting monetary policy.

  • Webinar: Nature data is financially material, not just 'bubble' talk

    03 July 2025

    Nature-related data has a real role to play in the investment process and could be an important driver of returns, an Environmental Finance webinar heard, although further research is needed.

  • Execution overtakes disinterest as barrier to nature investment, says Pollination

    02 July 2025

    Issues around execution of nature investment strategies - such as a lack of returns, pipeline and capability - have become the biggest barrier for nature investing, a Pollination survey has found.

  • EIOPA urges deeper biodiversity risk action amid promising insurer steps

    01 July 2025

    Insurers have made encouraging first moves to address biodiversity risk, but much more is needed to manage its financial impact, according to the inaugural report on biodiversity risk management from the EU's insurance authority.

  • Debt-for-nature swaps get guidance to support scalability, project expansion

    01 July 2025

    The first 'practice standards' for the rapidly growing 'debt-for-nature' swaps has been published, which looks to introduce greater consistency in the bespoke instruments...

  • GIST Impact to integrate Biodiversity Intactness Index

    01 July 2025

    Nature and impact data company GIST Impact is set to integrate the UK Natural History Museum's Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) into its nature and biodiversity products.

  • ECB adds nature-related risk reference for first time in monetary policy strategy

    01 July 2025

    The European Central Bank (ECB) has identified nature degradation alongside climate risk for the first time in its monetary policy strategy, signalling that it is a topic it is monitoring for impacts on price stability in the Eurozone.

  • UK pension fund to invest £25m in upcoming nature 'infra' fund

    01 July 2025

    The West Yorkshire Pension Fund (WYPF) has committed £25 million ($34 million) into a cornerstone portfolio of Rebalance Earth's upcoming nature-based 'infrastructure' fund.