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Investors need clearer price signals from nature opportunities, says New Forests
11 September 2024Clearer price signals are needed to make nature positive investments "more economically attractive" to investors, according to Australian nature investor New Forests.
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MSCI: 'Striking' rise of climate adaptation in utility green bonds
11 September 2024MSCI said there has been a "striking increase" in the prominence of climate adaptation projects in green bonds from the utility sector, as attention focuses on strengthening transmission assets to extreme weather.
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'Standardisation is simplification, not burden': EFRAG's de Cambourg in riposte to Draghi
10 September 2024One of the key figures behind the EU's sustainability reporting standards has defended them after they were criticised by political heavyweight Mario Draghi as contributing to the sustainability reporting burden.
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Investors need to be more realistic about NBS in Asia, says WWF
10 September 2024Investors looking to invest in nature-based solutions (NBS) in Asia need to adjust their expectations to fit the local reality, the WWF has said.
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'Insufficient infrastructure' hindering blended finance opportunities, says WEF
10 September 2024Philanthropic organisations can help overcome the "insufficient infrastructure" in place for public and private financiers of nature- and climate-focused blended finance, according to the World Economic Forum.
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KfW raises £750m from green bond in 'difficult' market
10 September 2024KfW has raised £750 million ($980 million) from its largest sterling-denominated green bond since 2022, with the deal attracting a 'greenium' despite the "difficult" fixed income market conditions.
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One-in-three big emitters have 1.5°C-aligned targets - but none have detailed transition plan, says TPI
10 September 2024About 30% of the biggest corporate emitters of greenhouse gas emissions globally have long-term climate targets aligned with keeping warming to 1.5°C - but none have detailed plans on how to reach these targets, according to the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) Centre.
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Global biodiversity credit market unlikely to look like UK's BNG market, says consultancy
10 September 2024A global biodiversity credit market will come to fruition, but is unlikely to emulate the market being created under UK's pioneering Biodiversity Net Gain legislation, a consultancy has predicted.
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Winners of the Sustainable Company Awards 2024 revealed
10 September 2024The winners of the 2024 Environmental Finance Sustainable Company Awards have been unveiled, recognising best practice and innovation in corporate sustainability.
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'Robust escalation strategies' needed on biodiversity, says ShareAction
10 September 2024Investors have been urged to tackle biodiversity risk in their portfolio in a ShareAction report, which calls for 'robust" escalation strategies, including divestment.
- Human rights impacts should be part of nature disclosure
- Using the SDGs to invest in sovereign debt
- Sovereign 'tension' with corporate sustainable bond investments needs addressing
- US-Iran conflict shows NGFS assumptions 'don't hold' amid fragmented transition
- AI data centre sustainable debt spurs innovation - and risk
- Lloyds launches UK food and nature resilience fund
- Allianz & Zurich launch blended finance investment company
- 'Paris-aligned benchmarks' out of favour in fragmented transition, Lazard says
- Clifford Capital targets $600m for transition vehicle
- Gresham House acquires major US timberland manager