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• 'Improved comparison needed for climate data products to be trusted'

  08 August 2025

  More comprehensive comparison methods are needed if financial institutions are to fully trust commercial climate data products to inform their resilience planning or capital allocation, according to a climate scientist at Man Group.

• Bank Australia to expand nature lending

  08 August 2025

  Retail lender Bank Australia is set to expand its nature lending portfolio, labelling it as an area of "growth and opportunity".

• Amundi: Asian sovereign sustainable bond issuers should look beyond local currency

  08 August 2025

  Asian sovereigns should consider issuing sustainable bonds in global hard currencies - like the US dollar - to "really expand" their investor base, according to Amundi.

• UK group readies guidance on credible transition finance

  07 August 2025

  A UK-based Transition Finance Council is preparing to publish draft 'guidelines for credible transition finance' for consultation next week, whose chair says aim to show a "base case" for determining which entities are progressing in the energy transition.

• Mizuho: Nature bond growth a 'natural next step' after 'symbolic' Japan debut

  07 August 2025

  Japanese interest in the newly introduced 'nature bond' sub-label is off to a strong start amid the highly "symbolic" inaugural transaction from Nagoya City and growing momentum behind the critical sustainable finance theme, according to Mizuho Securities.

• Bezos Earth Fund: 30x30 target only achievable with private funding and High Seas ratification

  07 August 2025

  The Global Biodiversity Framework's 30x30 target has "collectively raised ambition", according to the Bezos Earth Fund, but it can only be achieved once policy moves in the right direction.

• Climate-related legal risk being priced into loans, suggest ECB researchers

  07 August 2025

  Climate-related legal risk is becoming systematically priced into corporate lending decisions, with companies targeted by lawsuits paying "significantly higher spreads" on their bank loans, according to researchers at the European Central Bank (ECB).

• Schroders developing 'bespoke' nature products

  07 August 2025

  Schroders has told Environmental Finance that it is looking to expand its nature proprietary assessment model, NatCapEx, using it to build bespoke products and strategies.

• UBS withdraws from NZBA

  07 August 2025

  Swiss bank UBS has withdrawn from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) following an annual assessment of its sustainability- and climate-related memberships.

• Standard Chartered partners with Brazilian state for carbon credit programme

  07 August 2025

  Standard Chartered has partnered with the Brazilian state of Acre to sell credits over the next five years from jurisdictional forestry projects, its first partnership below the government level.