Market insight

• The role of databases in the sustainable loan market

  Environmental Finance (EF) Data has been covering the sustainable loans market since its inception. Ben Smith outlines how the database has evolved in line with data challenges and market growth opportunities

  

• Taking stock as the market prepares for growth

  As borrowers and lenders take stock of measures to improve transparency and robustness in the sustainable loans market, ING's sustainable finance experts remain positive that the recent slowdown is a temporary pause as a stronger market emerges

  

• Investing for impact across the agricultural value chain

  SilverStreet Capital is a UK and Africa-based investment advisor managing African agricultural funds. Its founder and chief investment officer Gary Vaughan-Smith and head of impact and ESG Julia Wakeling Bird talk to Environmental Finance about its award-winning Silverlands II Fund.

  

• The potential and integrity imperative of algorithmic data solutions for net-zero

  Recent advances in Earth Observation science have unlocked new solutions that bring unprecedented transparency and quality to natural capital accounting. Algorithmic in nature, they support the transition to net-zero with more speed, scale and integrity.

  

• CDL first in Southest Asia to apply two-pillar ESG disclosure framework in its integrated sustainability report

  CDL's 16th Integrated Sustainability Report applies a two-pillar reporting framework that harmonises nine key ESG reporting standards and 14 UN SDGs, supporting the harmonisation of the global sustainability reporting landscape.

  

• Fixing opacity when using voluntary carbon credits in SLBs

  Voluntary carbon credits are once more in the limelight. Nonetheless, little attention is paid to the use of these credits in sustainable finance, write Cédric Merle, Gratien Davasse and Erwan Tobie

  

• Seizing the nature investment opportunity

  Climate Asset Management has just raised $650 million for its two natural capital investment strategies. Martin Berg, the chief investment officer of its Nature Based Carbon Strategy, explains its approach

  

• Measuring the biodiversity footprint of a portfolio

  Elodie Milleret, Iceberg Data Lab's lead biodiversity expert gives an overview of Iceberg's Corporate Biodiversity Footprint (CBF) measurement tool

  

• The role of investors in reversing deforestation

  Commodity-driven deforestation poses significant risks to companies and their investors, write Ingrid Kukuljan and Sonya Likhtman

  

• Natural selection: the investment case for addressing biodiversity loss

  Investment opportunities are emerging to reduce pressure on biodiversity - although nature restoration is proving thornier, say Lisa Beauvilain, global head of sustainability and stewardship, and Chris Dodwell, head of policy and advocacy, at Impax Asset Management