News

  • Nature risk toolkit launched for southeast Asia

    01 July 2026

    A toolkit has been launched to help financial institutions in southeast Asia identify which nature datasets can be used to assess nature-related risks.

  • ING remains upbeat on sustainable debt, despite slow start to year

    30 June 2026

    Strong 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.

  • Edentree ponders flexible sustainable bond strategies to tackle transition, EM

    30 June 2026

    Edentree 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.

  • French local government lender to start issuing green and social bonds

    30 June 2026

    French 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.

  • TFFF organisers not yet focused on private backing

    30 June 2026

    Organisers 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.

  • Allianz & Zurich launch blended finance investment company

    30 June 2026

    Allianz 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.

  • ISSB chair calls on EU to keep 'anticipated financial effects' reporting

    30 June 2026

    The 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.

  • Lloyds launches UK food and nature resilience fund

    30 June 2026

    Lloyds Banking Group and regenerative farming business Wildfarmed have launched a fund to transition the UK farming sector to more nature-positive practices.

  • We don't need a 'Just Transition' bond label

    29 June 2026

    We 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.

  • Erlandsson: Transition-linked bonds more impactful than use-of-proceeds equivalent

    29 June 2026

    Transition-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.