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Loan round-up: Stantec, John Lewis, Estia Health, Genesis Energy ... and more

Climate finance skewed against women, says World Bank advisor

Gender-related criteria must not be seen as tokenistic for developing countries accessing climate finance, a World Bank executive has said.

COP26 round-up, 4 November: The end of coal 'in sight' following historic pledges

23 countries made commitments to phase out coal power, including five of the world's top 20 coal power-using countries.

'First' EU carbon allowance-backed security launched

Carbon investing firm SparkChange has launched a physically-backed carbon exchange-traded commodity (ETC) security, intended to prevent carbon emissions by withholding EU carbon credits from polluters and support investor engagement.

Bank of England ready to 'green' £20bn bond purchase scheme

US insurers still behind Europeans on climate scorecard

Insure Our Future identifies major climate and fossil fuel laggards

Amundi and IFC launch $2bn emerging market sustainable bond strategy

Amundi and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) will launch a fund to invest in Emerging Market sustainable bonds in 2022 which intends to mobilise up to $2 billion in private investment.

Bond round-up: Teva, IBRD, ICBC, Citi, Hera, Tesco, Verallia ... and more

COP26 round-up, 3 November: UK, South Africa and GFANZ

NGFS makes 'Glasgow declaration' to step up work on climate scenarios

The Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) has published a plan of action for coming years...