News

• Fundraising for BNPP Future Forests Fund 'ongoing and positive, but taking time'

  07 October 2025

  BNP Paribas Asset Management remains confident that it can secure more commitments for its sustainable forestry fund after raising just $15 million in the 10 months since launch.

• US corporates 'clearly missing' sustainable bond buyer opportunity

  07 October 2025

  The "persistency" of the decline in US corporate sustainable bond issuance continues to surprise Nuveen amid evidence they are "clearly missing" a growing buyer base for the instruments.

• Further cuts in DEI reporting are 'likely', says Impax

  07 October 2025

  US companies are "likely" to further reduce reporting of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) data going forward, Impax Asset Management has claimed.

• SLB issuance is 'brave' and quality is improving 'significantly'

  07 October 2025

  Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) are a "very strong mechanism" for issuers to commit to their transition story, and second-party opinion (SPO) provider Morningstar Sustainalytics said the quality of the target-based structure has improved "significantly"

• 'Booming' Central and Eastern Europe issuance has more room to grow, says ING

  06 October 2025

  Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is emerging as one of the fastest-growing parts of the sustainable bond and loan market, after $37 billion was issued in the region during the first half of 2025, according to ING.

• Proposed Article 6.4 standard 'risks collapsing market for nature-based solutions'

  06 October 2025

  A group of carbon market developers has raised "serious concerns" about a draft 'permanence' standard for the Article 6.4 market, alleging that it puts a nature-based solutions market at risk of collapse "before it begins".

• Emirates Islamic: Sukuk deal shows investor understanding of SLLBs growing

  06 October 2025

  The pioneering sukuk from Emirates Islamic has highlighted the growing awareness and appetite among investors for sustainability-linked loan bonds (SLLBs), but the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based bank said the nascent instrument still needs to focus on credibility to scale.

• Improved climate risk data 'to help tackle uninsurability'

  06 October 2025

  Improvements in climate risk data could help to tackle the 'uninsurability' problem that has seen insurers walk away from some areas that are seen as too risky, one specialist argued.

• Voluntary standard for SMEs set to plug Omnibus-shaped gap in CSRD coverage

  06 October 2025

  A lightweight version of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is likely to be recommended for use by a swathe of medium-sized companies after they are removed from the scope of mandatory reporting.

• Bloomlabs launches biodiversity credit platform

  06 October 2025

  A new biodiversity credit platform from bloomlabs, (previously known as Bloom Labs) has told Environmental Finance that it could still be some years before buyers start flocking to the market.