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  • Big bank green debt fees overtake fossil fees again, AFII finds

    24 September 2025

    Syndication 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).

  • Brazil commits $1bn to TFFF

    24 September 2025

    The Brazilian government has committed $1 billion to the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) and called for more pledges ahead of COP30.

  • Property-linked financing initiative launched by GFI, CBI

    24 September 2025

    An 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).

  • Asset owners increasingly cite fears that ESG harms returns, according to Morningstar survey

    23 September 2025

    The 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.

  • Reform 'dead horse' EU taxonomy, urges asset manager

    23 September 2025

    Tailoring 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.

  • Exclusive: Barclays nature risk assessment suggests selected mining companies could face 25% earnings hit

    23 September 2025

    Barclays 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.

  • NIB becomes first SSA issuer of an SLLB

    23 September 2025

    Nordic 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.

  • Emissions reporting improving, but Scope 3 still problematic, says LSEG

    23 September 2025

    Scope 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.

  • Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings 2025 winners announced

    23 September 2025

    Environmental 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.

  • Public sector causes replicability challenges for blended finance, says Mirova

    23 September 2025

    Problems 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.