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'Orange bonds will have their day,' says Fidelity
12 June 2024Fidelity International (FIL) said 'orange' social bonds focused on financing gender equality finance are "currently uninvestible," but the $800 billion asset manager is looking closely into them and believes their "will have their day" in the sustainable fixed income market.
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Verra suspends account following Brazil greenwashing investigation
11 June 2024Verra has taken the "extraordinary action" of temporarily suspending an account as Brazil's Operation Greenwashing alleged a criminal organisation was suspected of selling BRL180 million ($33.6 million) in carbon credits.
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Biodiversity and carbon credits "poised for massive expansion"
11 June 2024The biodiversity and carbon credit markets are "poised for massive expansion", but more needs to be done to connect the two mechanisms and utilise their co-benefits, the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has said.
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EU elections show need for better climate policymaking, fund manager says
11 June 2024The success of far-right political parties in elections for the European Parliament shows the need for policymakers to craft more practical and less complex climate policies, one fund manager has said.
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Candriam looking to expand outside of "traditional" water investments
11 June 2024Candriam has told Environmental Finance it plans to invest outside of "traditional" water sectors to meet the growing number of challenges posed by the water crisis, and how it plans to leverage artificial intelligence to "differentiate" from its peers
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Issuers must be encouraged to kick-start blue bond market, says Fidelity
11 June 2024Fidelity International (FIL) said "obvious" marine and water-focused issuers must be encouraged by investors to enter the blue bond market to energise the market, adding that 'blue' projects exist but are not grouped together enough.
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General Atlantic's BeyondNetZero acquires significant stake in SDCL
11 June 2024Private equity giant General Atlantic has acquired a 24.9% shareholding in Sustainable Development Capital (SDCL), having invested an undisclosed sum from its climate growth fund, BeyondNetZero.
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UBS: We need NDCs for nature
11 June 2024The next biodiversity COP needs to deliver progress on how countries plan to achieve the landmark '30-by-30' targets agreed at the previous meeting in Montreal, to incentive investment, UBS has said.
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Companies' slow progress on assurance shows size of regulatory challenge, KPMG says
11 June 2024The "limited uplift" in companies' readiness to meet regulatory requirements to gain independent assurance of sustainability disclosures demonstrates the scale of the challenge they face to upskill and implement the required processes, KPMG has said.
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West African countries urge SBTi to allow carbon offsetting
10 June 2024A coalition of West African countries has weighed in to the row about whether carbon offsets should be used to help meet net zero targets.
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