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Biodiversity webinar: 'Mandate nature-related disclosures'

Investors and companies should be required to report information relating to their positive and negative impacts on nature, a webinar on biodiversity hosted by Environmental Finance heard.

Green and sustainability-linked loan round-up: Iberdrola, Concert Properties, ERG

KKR has global ambition for Australian environmental markets platform

Private equity giant KKR is to invest an undisclosed amount in GreenCollar, a natural resource project development and environmental markets platform based in Australia, and has pledged to turn it into a global business.

Phenix sees growth in affordable housing impact funds

Phenix Capital has observed a significant increase in the number of impact funds being raised to invest in affordable housing in recent months - and predicted that the trend is set to gather pace post-pandemic.

Bond round-up: Massachusetts, BBVA, Seiko Epson, Berlin Hyp, Komatsu ... and more

Major European banks provided large-scale financial support to coal industry

European banks including Barclays, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale loaned billions of euros to coal companies across the EU in 2019, according to a report.

Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures 'to be launched in Q1 2021'

Exploratory work for a Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is set to begin in September, ahead of a full task force being launched early next year, a webinar on biodiversity hosted by Environmental Finance heard.

Sweden plans SEK20bn sovereign green bond in August

Sweden's National Debt Office said it hopes to raise approximately SEK20 billion ($2.2 billion) in August from its first green bond.

UN seeks to buy 224,000 Certified Emission Reductions

The UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) has posted an 'Invitation to Bid' for 224,068 'high quality' Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) to help offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from various organisations within the UN.

SASB and GRI announce sustainability disclosure collaboration

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) have announced a collaboration to show how their two standards can be used together to help ease the reporting burden.