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Nature risk toolkit launched for southeast Asia
01 July 2026A toolkit has been launched to help financial institutions in southeast Asia identify which nature datasets can be used to assess nature-related risks.
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ING remains upbeat on sustainable debt, despite slow start to year
30 June 2026Strong demand for plain vanilla bonds and the US-Iran conflict have impacted sustainable debt issuance this year, according to ING, although it has maintained its prediction that labelled debt issuance will surpass $1.6 trillion in 2026.
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Edentree ponders flexible sustainable bond strategies to tackle transition, EM
30 June 2026Edentree Investment Management (IM) is looking at new products to tackle transition and emerging market fixed income opportunities amid an "uneasy fit" in established - but restrictive - sustainable bond strategies.
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French local government lender to start issuing green and social bonds
30 June 2026French local government lender Agence France Locale (AFL) has updated its sustainable finance framework, enabling it to issue standalone green and social bonds alongside sustainability bonds.
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TFFF organisers not yet focused on private backing
30 June 2026Organisers of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) are not yet focusing on private sector involvement, despite enquiries from private finance becoming increasingly sophisticated, Environmental Finance has learned.
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Allianz & Zurich launch blended finance investment company
30 June 2026Allianz and Zurich have partnered with Germany's KfW and FinDev Canada to jointly launch an investment vehicle to grow private finance for sustainable development in emerging markets.
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ISSB chair calls on EU to keep 'anticipated financial effects' reporting
30 June 2026The EU should ensure that reporting the 'anticipated financial effects' of sustainability risks remains a "core" mandatory requirement in its reporting rules, the chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) said.
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Lloyds launches UK food and nature resilience fund
30 June 2026Lloyds Banking Group and regenerative farming business Wildfarmed have launched a fund to transition the UK farming sector to more nature-positive practices.
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We don't need a 'Just Transition' bond label
29 June 2026We could be reaching a turning point for integrating 'just transition' into sustainable finance - but a 'Just Transition' bond label is not needed, according to a leading thinker on the theme.
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Erlandsson: Transition-linked bonds more impactful than use-of-proceeds equivalent
29 June 2026Transition-linked bonds are more impactful than use-of-proceeds focused transition debt instruments, because they "hard-code" transition targets at issuer-level, according to an influential sustainable fixed income expert.
- Place-based impact for the net zero economy
- IFC mandates benchmark five-year US dollar green bond
- Changing the conversation on nature finance
- ASTM publishes inaugural green finance framework
- Biggest insurers failing to get to grips with adaptation, says ShareAction
- SFDR vote delayed amid disagreement on transition category
- IFC issues inaugural euro green benchmark, while dollar deal tightens by 4bps
- Dawes named FCA director of sustainable finance
- TenneT Germany plans inaugural bond issuance with EuGB
- Making green guarantees profitable