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  • NZBA ditches requirement to target 1.5°C alignment to give banks more 'flexibility'

    15 April 2025

    The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) has approved changes to its framework to no longer require targeting 1.5°C alignment - instead allowing members to choose from "a wider range of net-zero pathways ... to limit global temperature rise to 'well below 2°C' and to strive for 1.5°C".

  • Franklin Templeton launches two ESG-focused ETFs

    15 April 2025

    Franklin Templeton has added two sustainability-focused index-tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to its range.

  • RMS to pilot ecosystem integrity index later this year

    15 April 2025

    Forestry and timberland investor Resource Management Service (RMS) is to pilot an ecosystem integrity index developed by RSK Wilding later this year.

  • Buyers of biodiversity credits 'yet to emerge'

    15 April 2025

    There is still no willingness to buy biodiversity credits, but biodiversity co-benefits continue to dominate carbon credit prices, a project developer has told Environmental Finance.

  • New Agriculture launches agricultural landscapes strategy

    14 April 2025

    New Agriculture has launched a new nature-based strategy for institutional investors, which will target improvements to agricultural landscapes across Australia and New Zealand.

  • Bloomberg, Cambridge developing 'game-changing' fossil fuel expansion-focused bond index

    14 April 2025

    The University of Cambridge and Bloomberg are developing the 'first' global bond index focused on excluding companies that are expanding their fossil fuel activities.

  • Winners of the 2025 Sustainable Debt Awards revealed

    14 April 2025

    The winners of the 2025 Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards have been announced.

  • EU ESG fund names are using sustainability terms less, says ESMA

    14 April 2025

    The use of sustainability-related fund names has slightly declined in the last two years, a report from European Securities and Markets Authority has claimed.

  • Schroders sets path for Apple to address Scope 3 emissions with new fund

    11 April 2025

    Schroders is helping Apple offset its Scope 3 emissions for a second time, Environmental Finance has learned, after it committed $100 million to a new China renewable energy strategy.

  • Carbon markets could be 'hugely beneficial' to Latin America

    11 April 2025

    The development international carbon credit markets after progress at COP29 could "really benefit" Latin American countries, according to Ninety One.