News

• Climate scenario analysis not just about identifying risk, webinar hears

  28 April 2026

  While climate scenario analysis is playing an increasingly important role in assessing and mitigating risks in portfolios, it is also helping to identify new investment opportunities, an Environmental Finance webinar heard.

• BRAC Bank issues first-ever Bangladesh social bond

  28 April 2026

  BRAC Bank has raised BDT10 billion ($81 million) from the first social bond issued by an issuer in Bangladesh, with hopes it will spawn a broader sustainable bond programme from the South Asian commercial bank.

• BTG Pactual reaches final close on $1.2bn reforestation fund

  28 April 2026

  BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group has reached a final close on its Latin American Reforestation strategy, making it the largest ever reforestation fund, at $1.24 billion.

• NRW.Bank ready for 'EuGB' debut in 'near term'

  28 April 2026

  NRW.Bank has published its 'European Green Bond' (EuGB) factsheet ahead of a benchmark-sized debut transaction using the EU-regulated sustainable bond label in the "near term".

• Brazil: There's no alternative to TFFF, we hope the money comes

  28 April 2026

  Brazil is hopeful that the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) will hit $10 billion of pledges of sponsor capital by the end of the year and hopes the next COP will prove a catalyst for capital to flow.

• Kenya's KMRC launches pioneering KES3bn sustainability bond debut

  28 April 2026

  The Kenya Mortgage Refinance Company (KMRC) has launched a debut sustainability bond worth up to KES3 billion ($27 million), believed to be the first to use the label in the East African country.

• US attack 'misunderstands' ESG in credit ratings, expert says

  28 April 2026

  Criticism by US attorneys general of how the 'Big Three' ratings agencies incorporate ESG factors is flawed and misunderstands how the agencies apply their methodologies, according to an expert.

• Delayed action on net zero would hit equities by 2030, warns Ortec

  28 April 2026

  Investors in developed market equities could face double-digit losses if the current trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions continues, according to research by risk and return management solutions provider Ortec Finance.

• PRI publishes asset owners' strategy document

  27 April 2026

  The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has released a report to signatories based on initial findings of its Future of Responsible Investment working group, as it considers its future strategy.

• Invesco: Bond client sustainable engagement targets 'trending higher'

  27 April 2026

  Institutional investors are increasingly setting sustainability engagement targets for their conventional fixed income asset managers, according to Invesco.