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New Forests to expand African business 'within weeks'
22 July 2025New Forests has revealed to Environmental Finance that it will be making its first investment in South Africa from its $200 million African Forestry Impact strategy "within weeks".
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IFVI and Capitals Coalition merge, scaling impact accounting scope
22 July 2025The International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) has merged with Capitals Coalition in a bid to ramp up its impact accounting efforts.
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CABEI issues landmark Costa Rican social bond
22 July 2025Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) has raised CRC71.5 billion ($140 million) from the first social bond issued in the Costa Rican capital market.
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'Warm' Japan transition bond reception could be warmer still, says AFII
22 July 2025The increasingly "warm reception" for Japanese sovereign transition bonds is encouraging, but a think tank argues tackling the liquidity challenge and attracting international investors could be key to helping reverse the transactions' 'negative greenium'.
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Trump bill clarity feeds 'buying opportunities that weren't there two years ago'
22 July 2025Clarity on the phase-out period for renewables tax credits provided by details in US President Donald Trump's tax-and-spending bill has renewed optimism in the market, a US fund manager has claimed.
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UK confirms ETS maritime expansion
22 July 2025The UK government has confirmed it will expand the scope of its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to the maritime sector in 2026.
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Fossil-fuel financing in crosshairs with SBTi's first finance standard
22 July 2025The Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has launched a net-zero standard for financial institutions that includes a requirement on ending fossil fuel financing.
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The City of London 'wants to build blended finance partnerships across the Global South'
22 July 2025The City of London wants to set up partnerships with countries across the Global South to help blended finance to flow, the Lord Mayor of London said.
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Chinese green bond and loan taxonomies unified in 'significant' update
21 July 2025Chinese regulators have published a new 'green catalogue', which unifies the green bond and loan taxonomies and continues the process of reducing the fragmentation of the green debt market in the country.
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Video: Nippon Life's Ayako Kageyama on innovative finance for nature and climate
21 July 2025Ayako Kageyama, Head, Innovative Sustainable Finance, Responsible Investment at Nippon Life Insurance Company talks about the key areas that can deliver co-benefits across climate and nature.
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