Market insight

• Mind the gaps: Clarifying corporate carbon

  In this paper, FTSE Russell surveys the current state of corporate carbon disclosure and explores the challenges facing investors in using estimation strategies.

  

• Bringing transparency to Latin America's green bond market

  Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Mauricio Claver-Carone sets out the thinking behind the IDB Green Bond Transparency Platform

  

• CDL's Integrated Sustainability Report 2022 zeroes in on bolder decarbonisation targets

  CDL is pleased to announce that its Integrated Sustainability Report 2022 has been published.

  

• Navigating the Complexities of ESG Bonds

  When the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) first published the Green Bond Principles in 2014, the market for self-labeled ESG bonds was small and homogeneous. Now, it's a different story.

  

• Casting an eye over sustainability linked loans

  Enthusiasm for SLLs has exploded over the last two years. With stakeholder scrutiny growing, external verification is increasingly important, say Jill Dumain, Simon Colton and Mariel Barrera Fermin of SGS

  

• Planting the seeds for a blooming SLB market

  As momentum builds for sustainability-linked bonds in Canada, what must issuers and investors do to benefit from this soon-to-bud market of ESG-friendly finance vehicles?

  

• There is a market for biodiversity - and it is expanding

  To increase biodiversity a functioning market is a prerequisite. Forest certification can form a voluntary market with more ambitious standards.

  

• Nature Risks Through a Credit Lens

  What role can ratings agencies have to play in stemming biodiversity loss? And what are they doing?

  

• Climate-smart forestry practices: the key to restoring biodiversity?

  Environmental Finance talks to EFM CEO Bettina von Hagen about financing the preservation of our natural world.

  

• Standards catalyse finance for biodiversity conservation

  As more and more organisations enter the biodiversity market, Verra strives to ensure that the high standards of projects are maintained, as Naomi Swickard, Chief Program Officer, outlines.