Market insight

  • Adaptation, biodiversity and the SLL market

    Climate mitigation has dominated the sustainability-linked loan (SLL) market - but rising climate impacts and concerns about nature loss are pushing adaptation and biodiversity finance up the agenda, says BBVA's Hedi Ben Salem

  • A deep dive on structuring SLLs

    SMBC Group's Natalya Tueva outlines best practice for KPI selection, identifying materiality and target ambition, and the value of third-party verification for sustainability-linked loans

  • 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

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