News

• Pioneering Poland returns to green bond market after six-year hiatus

  01 July 2025

  Poland has raised €1.25 billion ($1.5 billion) from its first green bond since 2019, nine years after the central European country became the first sovereign sustainable bond issuer.

• GIST Impact to integrate Biodiversity Intactness Index

  01 July 2025

  Nature and impact data company GIST Impact is set to integrate the UK Natural History Museum's Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) into its nature and biodiversity products.

• ECB adds nature-related risk reference for first time in monetary policy strategy

  01 July 2025

  The European Central Bank (ECB) has identified nature degradation alongside climate risk for the first time in its monetary policy strategy, signalling that it is a topic it is monitoring for impacts on price stability in the Eurozone.

• UK pension fund to invest £25m in upcoming nature 'infra' fund

  01 July 2025

  The West Yorkshire Pension Fund (WYPF) has committed £25 million ($34 million) into a cornerstone portfolio of Rebalance Earth's upcoming nature-based 'infrastructure' fund.

• Fossil fuel underwriting curbs are effective but implementation is patchy, study shows

  01 July 2025

  "We need net-zero commitments to cover your underwriting portfolios, and this should include coal and all fossil fuels," UN Secretary-General António Guterres told insurers in 2021.

• Nobody will fight hard to save 'ESG', says Morningstar

  01 July 2025

  Asset owners will move on to other ways to label their ESG investments, although they will have learned of the issues that another all-inclusive term could bring, according to Morningstar.

• Oxygen Conservation aims for £1bn natural capital portfolio

  30 June 2025

  Private equity-backed nature restoration investor Oxygen Conservation plans to grow its natural capital portfolio to £1 billion ($1.4 billion) to create a viable and investable market in the UK.

• Manulife: 'We are watching the interesting SLLB instrument closely'

  30 June 2025

  The nascent Sustainability-Linked Loan Bond (SLLB) market is being watched closely by Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM) as an "interesting" way to accelerate sustainable lending...

• 'Several vulnerabilities' in financial institutions' sustainability reports, ESMA finds

  30 June 2025

  Analysis of investment fund managers' compliance with EU sustainability rules including the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) found "several vulnerabilities" in reporting, according to supervisors.

• Data centres a 'huge' sustainable investment opportunity, says HSBC

  30 June 2025

  Data centres represent a significant sustainability investment opportunity for institutional investors, according to HSBC, despite the sector's energy and water use "raising eyebrows".