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'Paris-aligned benchmarks' out of favour in fragmented transition, Lazard says

Asset owners are increasingly critical of passive climate investment strategies amid concerns that they do not capture the growing complexity of the energy transition, an asset manager said.

Adaptation investment being blocked, report finds

Adaptation and resilience financing is "rich in instruments but fragmented in use", a report has found, as a financing gap has emerged "so large that public funding alone cannot close" it.

Human rights impacts should be part of nature disclosure

Financial materiality is only part of the picture. Nature disclosure must go further, writes Marina Comandulli

UK forum to define carbon in bid to develop market

The UK Carbon Markets Forum plans to further define carbon assets in a bid to help develop an investable and tradeable market.

US-Iran conflict shows NGFS assumptions 'don't hold' amid fragmented transition

Idiosyncratic policy responses to disruption from the US-Iran conflict show that old assumptions around the climate transition "don't hold anymore" and require a rethink of widely used scenarios, an expert argued.

Sovereign 'tension' with corporate sustainable bond investments needs addressing

Institutional investors should find ways to address the "tension" emerging between how they manage their corporate and sovereign bond portfolios around decarbonisation, according to an influential fixed income expert.

VPBank upsizes debut sustainability-linked loan to $1.4bn

Banco BPM enters growing green Tier 2 bond market

Banco BPM has issued a €500 million ($570 million) green Tier 2 bond, which the lender said is the first green subordinated Tier 2 instrument launched by an Italian bank, as the labelled subordinated bond market continues its gradual growth.

Gresham House acquires major US timberland manager

Sustainable debt round-up: BBVA, Iberdrola, Republic of Austria ... and more