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Big bank green debt fees overtake fossil fees again, AFII finds
24 September 2025Syndication fees from green bonds and loans for larger banks overtook fossil deals for the first time in almost two years in Q3, according to the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII).
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Brazil commits $1bn to TFFF
24 September 2025The Brazilian government has committed $1 billion to the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) and called for more pledges ahead of COP30.
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Property-linked financing initiative launched by GFI, CBI
24 September 2025An initiative to scale up the emerging 'property-linked finance' sector has been launched at New York Climate Week by the Green Finance Institute (GFI) and the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI).
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Asset owners increasingly cite fears that ESG harms returns, according to Morningstar survey
23 September 2025The number of asset owners who say concerns over the returns of ESG strategies are a potential barrier to investment has risen significantly in the latest annual survey by Morningstar.
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Reform 'dead horse' EU taxonomy, urges asset manager
23 September 2025Tailoring sustainability reporting requirements to ensure they are more closely linked to sectoral business impacts, risks and opportunities could help make the EU taxonomy more useful for mainstream investors, an asset manager has argued.
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Exclusive: Barclays nature risk assessment suggests selected mining companies could face 25% earnings hit
23 September 2025Barclays has unveiled a methodology to assess the financial impact of nature risks across large portfolios, with an initial study suggesting that in-scope companies within its mining portfolio could take a 25% hit to its earnings.
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NIB becomes first SSA issuer of an SLLB
23 September 2025Nordic Investment Bank has issued its inaugural sustainability-linked loan bond (SLLB), a five-year SEK1.7 billion ($182 million) bond, the first by a sovereign, supranational and agency (SSA) issuer.
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Emissions reporting improving, but Scope 3 still problematic, says LSEG
23 September 2025Scope 1 and 2 emissions reporting in equities and fixed income benchmarks has continued to improve in recent years, but a lot of work remains to be done on Scope 3, a study by London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has found.
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Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings 2025 winners announced
23 September 2025Environmental Finance received close to 4,000 votes across 23 separate categories for this year's Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings as readers nominated leading companies and initiatives that exhibit best practice or innovation.
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Public sector causes replicability challenges for blended finance, says Mirova
23 September 2025Problems around replicability that prevent the scaling of blended finance funds is not caused by private investors, Mirova has argued, but an issue influenced by the public sector.
- SFDR vote delayed amid disagreement on transition category
- IFC issues inaugural euro green benchmark, while dollar deal tightens by 4bps
- Making green guarantees profitable
- IFC mandates benchmark five-year US dollar green bond
- ASTM publishes inaugural green finance framework
- Place-based impact for the net zero economy
- Exclusive: Standard Life among financial institutions in 'just transition' pilot
- TenneT Germany raises record €3.5bn in debut European Green Bond
- TenneT Germany plans inaugural bond issuance with EuGB
- Changing the conversation on nature finance