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Achmea Innovation Fund invests in reforestation company

The Netherlands-based financial services provider Achmea is taking a 'significant' non-controlling interest in Land Life, a reforestation company.

Climate Endowment to launch €500m forestry fund

The Climate Endowment Group is gearing up to launch a forestry impact fund with an initial target size of about €500 million ($590 million), Environmental Finance can reveal.

Bond round-up: Paris, Unedic, NRW, Enel, Mizuho ... and more

Private wealth holders to 'almost double' impact investing by 2025

Research by Campden Wealth, Global Impact Solutions Today (GIST), and Barclays Private Bank suggests the average portfolio allocation of private wealth holders and family offices for social and environment impact is to increase from 20% in 2019 to 35% in 2025.

ESG News Round-Up: LGIM, Triple Point, Foster Denovo, and more

BNP Paribas launches first blue economy ETF

BNP Paribas Asset Management has launched the first exchange-traded fund focused on the blue economy, with the €35 million fund investing in listed equities that contribute to the sustainable economic use of the ocean resources

ESG news round-up: IMF; SEEIT; Aegon and more

IFM Investors has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions across all asset classes, targeting net-zero emissions by 2050.

$20trn of investors urge firms to set science-based targets

Co-chairs confirmed for TNFD working group

Three co-chairs have been nominated to lead the Informal Working Group (IWG) that is tasked with launching a work plan for the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD):

$5trn of investors set 'unprecedented' 1.5°C emissions target

Some of the world's largest investors, with a combined $5 trillion in assets, have pledged to implement deep greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions in their portfolios over the next five years, putting them on course to help limit global warming to 1.5°C.