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Mirova: 'If blended finance doesn't scale soon, we'll have to pull our focus'
23 September 2025If blended finance cannot scale in the next five years, Mirova may have to reconsider its future in the sector, and expects other mainstream asset managers will be in a similar position, an OECD event has heard.
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Schroders: 'Language of exclusion and divestment unhelpful for active managers'
22 September 2025The description of sustainability-led exclusion and divestment in investment decisions is "unhelpful" for active managers, Schroders told an Environmental Finance event.
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'We should solve our love-hate relationship with SLBs'
22 September 2025Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) were the "right response" to overcoming transition finance challenges and delivering impact, but the market needs to address the "love-hate relationship" it has developed for the performance-focused instrument.
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ING incubator eyes nature as 'next big thing'
22 September 2025The head of Dutch bank ING's recently launched Transition Accelerator has identified sustainable agriculture as an investment theme rich in potential.
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Policy rollbacks are 'unhelpful' for US renewables, says SDCL founder
22 September 2025Renewables policy rollbacks in the US are unhelpful but short-term, argued Sustainable Development Capital's (SDCL) founder, who says infrastructure investments must be judges by their long-term returns.
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'Something has got to give on green bond reporting'
22 September 2025Green bond reporting practices have become "very challenging" for issuers as investors increasingly focus on their own requirements, an Environmental Finance event heard - but nascent post-issuance second-party opinions (SPOs) could provide a solution.
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Complying with ever-changing regs is 'costly exercise' for asset managers and SMEs
22 September 2025The cost of compliance in an ever-changing regulatory landscape could price-out the smaller asset managers, a private equity investor has claimed.
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OECD updates guidelines for blended finance 'cottage industry'
22 September 2025The OECD has published its second iteration of guidelines for blended finance, which it argued remained a "cottage industry" lacking in scale and standardisation.
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Excluding mining doesn't make a lot of sense, says Impax
19 September 2025Sustainability portfolios need to be realistic about the critical role of mining in the transition, Environmental Finance has heard, but "guardrails" must be put in place.
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Green bonds can dramatically impact portfolio emissions, says LSEG
19 September 2025As green bonds come to play a more significant role in fixed income benchmarks, asset owners will need to consider how they calculate their impact on emissions in their portfolios, according to the London Stock Exchange Group.
- 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