News

• Ex-ABN AMRO impact leads set up 'more narrowed' fund to rival

  25 November 2025

  Two ex-ABN AMRO Impact leads have quit the institution to launch a "more narrowed focus" impact firm, Environmental Finance has learned.

• SFDR 2.0 'more ambitious than original', says law firm

  25 November 2025

  Proposals to revamp the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) are more ambitious than those they are due to replace, according to a law firm, even though the EU is rolling back the scope of much of its other sustainability-focused regulations.

• S&P: 'Little evidence' of 'greenium' in green bond market

  25 November 2025

  There is "no significant greenium" at a global level for the green bond market, according to S&P Global - but green bond issuers may still be benefitting from lower funding costs more broadly.

• 'First-ever' BNG insurance product launched

  25 November 2025

  Howden subsidiary, DUAL, has launched the 'first-ever' insurance product to protect Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) unit developers, whilst calling for a "paradigm shift" in the insurance industry.

• Kenya's Safaricom launches debut green bond

  25 November 2025

  Telecommunications firm Safaricom has launched its debut green bond worth up to KES20 billion ($154 million), making it only the second sustainable bond issuer in Kenya.

• 'We are not going to have a Paris Accord every year': The investor verdict on COP30

  25 November 2025

  While COP30 in Belem failed to deliver on some points - most notably a lack of a roadmap away from fossil fuels - there was acknowledgement on the role of adaptation finance and deforestation.

• COP30 should trigger investment in adaptation, says EdenTree

  25 November 2025

  Support for adaptation financing in the COP30 agreement will provide the sustainable finance community with the recognition that adaptation is a "holistic response" to climate change, EdenTree Investment Management has claimed.

• Tell us you'll buy transition bonds before we embrace new label, issuer urges investors

  24 November 2025

  Investors will need to show they want to buy bonds that use a transition label before issuers feel comfortable adapting existing frameworks to do so, according to a senior figure at the Treasury Corporation of Victoria (TCV).

• SDR was a 'line in the sand moment', says EdenTree, as it labels full range

  24 November 2025

  EdenTree Investment Management has aligned all of its fund range to the UK's Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) regulation, saying it has helped remove much of the confusion in the sector around definitions.

• EU Commission could have given itself more time on SFDR 2.0, says Clarity AI

  24 November 2025

  The EU Commission's UK-inspired reboot of the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) could lead to some of the same teething issues, according to sustainability technology company Clarity AI.