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Sustainable Debt Americas 2024: early bird ends on Friday

The early bird rate for Environmental Finance's annual Sustainable Debt Americas conference will end this Friday, so register now to save 20%. Environmental Finance subscribers receive a further 30% discount.

Emirates NBD developing 'Sharia first' sustainable finance framework

Emirates NBD is preparing to publish an innovative framework for sustainable bond and sukuk issuance in October, which it hopes will help scale the Islamic sustainable finance market.

Planet Tracker expands nature scorecards

Planet Tracker has expanded its scorecards for over 1,000 companies, to better reflect new market initiatives, including the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).

SEBI targets social, sustainability-linked and securitised debt in rule extension

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is considering expanding its green bond framework to include social, sustainability and sustainability-linked fixed income instruments and securitised debt.

Jefferies flags food, tiremaker stocks for investor scrutiny as EU Deforestation Regulation looms

Investors have been advised to scrutinise several companies for engagement, including Hankook, Nexen, Golden-Agri Resources and Darling Ingredients, as stocks potentially negatively exposed to EU rules set to impose strict due diligence requirements from next year.

BoJ lends $49bn to spur climate investment

Banks' climate data struggles are clouding their view of price changes, ECB says

Banks in the eurozone struggle to collect even the most basic data on climate risks to commercial real estate, despite evidence that pricing "is already clearly being affected by" physical climate risks, the European Central Bank (ECB) has said.

'Green bonds cheaper than ever before'

The "yield disadvantage" of corporate green bonds compared with their 'vanilla' equivalents has "decreased significantly" in several areas of the market - making them an "interesting addition" to sustainable fixed income portfolios, according Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB).

Tech giants driving demand for carbon credits, says NatureRe

US tech giants are driving demand for nature-based carbon credits, project developer NatureRe has said, but warned projects available will not be "enough to save the world".

First 'transition credits' planned to shut down coal station in Philippines

A ground-breaking deal plans to use 'transition credits' to help fund the early retirement of a coal-fired power plant in the Philippines and replace it with a solar and battery plant.