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NatureAlpha hires BlackRock's Segafredo, eyes index creation
22 January 2025Nature data specialist NatureAlpha has hired Laura Segafredo from BlackRock, Environmental Finance has learned. She will look to help grow the business including through developing nature-focused indexes.
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Comment: Why isn't blended finance working?
21 January 2025There is a long way to go to plug the funding gap for the Sustainable Development Goals, writes Peter Cripps
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BlackRock launches fund with SDR label
17 January 2025BlackRock has launched its first fund to have a label under the UK's Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) regime.
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$500m CCMM bond marks 'new era for climate finance'
15 January 2025The Climate Investment Funds Capital Markets Mechanism (CCMM) has issued a $500 million bond, in a deal hailed as the dawn of "a new era in climate finance".
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OECD blended finance conference to tackle barriers to capital mobilisation
14 January 2025BlackRock, Amundi and BNP Paribas have been named among the speakers at a conference on how to mobilise capital for sustainable development in emerging markets.
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Comment: Investors need to target sovereigns in 2025
10 January 2025As California burns and 1.5°C drifts out of reach, it is time for investors to move up the value chain, argues Peter Cripps
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Mobilising transition finance 'key concern' for 2025, says Moody's
06 January 2025Mobilising transition finance to support decarbonisation targets, especially to the emerging markets, will remain a 'key hurdle' this year, according to an outlook paper by Moody's Ratings.
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The top 10 most-read stories of 2024 - and the themes they reveal
24 December 2024What piqued readers' interest over the past year? Peter Cripps looks at the most clicked-on articles to identify the trends playing on investors' minds
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Environmental Finance launches Blended Finance segment, partners with OECD on conference
17 December 2024Environmental Finance has launched a segment of its website dedicated to 'Blended Finance' and has partnered with the OECD on a conference on the topic, to help drive interest in this vital developmental theme.
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Impact awards 2024 - Personality of the year: Amar Inamdar
17 December 2024Amar Inamdar has emerged as a leader in unlocking climate finance for Africa.
- Permira makes 'transformative investment' in CDP, as it becomes 'commercial entity'
- Forestry industry captured GHG Protocol process, outgoing advisor alleges
- Better capex data is not a 'nice to have' for investors, webinar hears
- China's offshore green bond to catalyse market
- SBTi's Corporate Net Zero Standard 2.0 unveils role for carbon credits
- Sustainable debt round-up: Latvia, Poland, European Investment Bank ... and more
- Akademiker engaging with car giants on deforestation
- Uganda targets debut sovereign green bond by early 2027
- Vasakronan seals EuGB double in quick succession
- BlackRock's sustainable and transition funds attract inflows despite backlash
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Malaysia's Kami Builders sets up $70m sustainable sukuk programme
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Edentree advocates 'social-flavoured UK sovereign bond' after green success
12 June 2026Investors are understood to be encouraging the UK government to consider issuing a social-focused sustainable bond after continued success for its innovative and expanding green bond programme, according to Edentree Investment Management (IM).
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German sustainable finance expert group handed 'simplification' mandate
12 June 2026Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, DZ Bank and Union Investment employees are among appointees under a renewed mandate of an expert group to advise Germany's federal government on sustainable finance.
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Trelleborg becomes first Swedish company to issue a blue bond
12 June 2026Polymer manufacturer Trelleborg has become the first Swedish company to issue a blue bond, raising SEK800 million ($84 million) through a five-year transaction linked to sustainable water and wastewater management.
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The ESG ratings reckoning
12 June 2026Europe's push for trust may reshape the market, writes Geoffroy Marcassoli
