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  • Actis bags $1.7bn for 'long-life' infra fund

    13 May 2025

    Sustainable infrastructure investor Actis has secured $1.7 billion for its second long-life infrastructure fund.

  • Physical climate risks already feeding inflation, says NGFS chair

    12 May 2025

    Physical climate risks are already feeding through to increased inflation, demonstrating that climate change "is within the core mandate" of central banks, according to the chair of the Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).

  • Early coal phase-out methodology launched

    06 May 2025

    A methodology for using transition credits to phase out coal power plants has been launched by the Rockefeller Foundation-led Coal to Clean Credit Initiative (CCCI) and consultancy South Pole.

  • Just transition is growing in importance in Gulf sustainable finance

    01 May 2025

    From Ahren Lester in Abu Dhabi

  • Pioneer closes second sustainable infra fund with €1.1bn

    30 April 2025

    Pioneer Point Partners has closed its second sustainable infrastructure fund, with €1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) in capital commitments.

  • UAE looking to establish water finance agenda

    30 April 2025

    Genevieve Redgrave reporting from Abu Dhabi

  • Gulf should become the 'Silicon Valley of sustainable finance', says GCFC

    30 April 2025

    Genevieve Redgrave reporting from Abu Dhabi

  • Carbon trading 'increasingly pivotal' for transition finance, says MSCI

    24 April 2025

    The voluntary carbon markets are playing an "increasingly pivotal" role in transition finance, MSCI has said.

  • CSRD, SEC climate disclosure setbacks make rating climate risk harder, S&P warns

    23 April 2025

    Setbacks to the planned introduction of sustainability reporting rules in the EU and US are likely to make assessing the climate-related credit risk of companies harder, a senior executive at S&P has said.

  • GPIF sustainability policy an 'important signal' for Asia-Pacific transition

    16 April 2025

    The creation of a formal sustainable investment policy by Japan's $1.8 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) sets an important signal for shareholder advocacy in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC).