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  • 'Giant decision tree' in development to help pick right sustainable loan label

    16 October 2025

    Work is underway to develop a "giant decision tree" to help banks and borrowers select the most appropriate sustainable loan label for their financing, according to the Loan Market Association (LMA).

  • 'Investors don't know what we do', says Europe's biggest DFI

    16 October 2025

    Private and institutional investors do not understand the work of development finance institutions (DFIs), creating a barrier for collaboration and scaling of blended finance vehicles, one of Europe's biggest DFIs has told Environmental Finance.

  • GPIF to study 'relationship between impact investing and investment returns'

    16 October 2025

    Japan's $1.7 trillion pension fund has launched a study of impact investment practices, according to its latest annual sustainable investment report.

  • EXCLUSIVE: JP Morgan launches biodiversity carbon project principles

    16 October 2025

    JP Morgan Chase and Carbon Direct have launched principles on how biodiversity could be 'optimised' within voluntary carbon market projects, in a bid to help standardise the market.

  • Transition loan guidance gives green light to 'ready-to-use' Principles draft

    16 October 2025

    A group of influential loan market associations has published a detailed guide on transition loans, including a much-anticipated Transition Loan Principles (TLP) draft.

  • TFFF 'great conceptually', but replicability remains to be seen, says Aviva

    16 October 2025

    The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) is "great conceptually", but how it attracts private sector capital will be its greatest test, Aviva has warned.

  • EXCLUSIVE: BNP Paribas AM launches environmental infrastructure fund

    16 October 2025

    BNP Paribas Asset Management has exclusively revealed to Environmental Finance that it will be launching an environmental infrastructure fund.

  • Webinar: 'Sustainability practitioners need to talk the bottom line for sustainability to become strategy'

    15 October 2025

    Sustainability practitioners in the Middle East need to be able to talk about what impact sustainability can have on the 'bottom line' for it to become more mainstream and to drive growth in the region, an Environmental Finance webinar heard.

  • UK's National Wealth Fund mobilises £16bn, refocusing additionality

    15 October 2025

    The UK's National Wealth Fund has mobilised £16.2 billion ($21.6 billion) of private capital investment in the past four years, its first impact report has said.

  • DEI backlash puts inclusion back on the agenda (ESG Data conference)

    15 October 2025

    The DEI backlash seen in the US has created a shift towards more 'inclusion' not less, several investors have claimed.