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Natural Disaster Fund expands insurance capacity

Re/insurer MS Amlin has committed $50 million to expand the capacity of the Natural Disaster Fund.

Exclusive: Combined climate and nature value-at-risk tool launched

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and NatureAlpha are launching a tool to price climate and nature value-at-risk, as part of a partnership that could see them release a nature index later this year, Environmental Finance has learned.

Google funds water resilience data tool

Danone, Mars, Hermès back €124m nature carbon fund

The Livelihood Impact Fund has raised €124 million in the first close of a new nature-based carbon fund.

Blended finance must be deployed more wisely, says HSBC

Blended finance can't be seen as a way to solve something which the private sector "just doesn't want to take on", according to HSBC.

TNFD using AI to track reporting uptake

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has begun using artificial intelligence to track the number of organisations carrying out nature reporting.

Sustainable debt round-up: Intesa Sanpaolo, California Community Choice Financing Authority, Snam ... and more

SFDR agreement criticised for allowing fossil fuels in transition funds

EU countries agreed that companies deriving large revenues from fossil fuels could qualify for 'transition' funds under the bloc's flagship Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), in move widely criticised by NGOs.

UK urged to launch sovereign transition bond

The Transition Finance Council (TFC) will explore how more transition-related financial products could be launched, a London Climate Action Week event has heard.

Banks' uneven progress on sustainability flagged in UNEP FI survey

Weaknesses in banks' management of sustainability risks have been flagged in a report that points to the need for improved disclosure of forward-looking information.