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  • Lloyds launches UK food and nature resilience fund

    30 June 2026

    Lloyds Banking Group and regenerative farming business Wildfarmed have launched a fund to transition the UK farming sector to more nature-positive practices.

  • Comment: Please stop talking about David Attenborough

    30 June 2026

    At London Climate Action Week, nature finance events often forgot to address the finance, writes Genevieve Redgrave

  • We don't need a 'Just Transition' bond label

    29 June 2026

    We could be reaching a turning point for integrating 'just transition' into sustainable finance - but a 'Just Transition' bond label is not needed, according to a leading thinker on the theme.

  • Erlandsson: Transition-linked bonds more impactful than use-of-proceeds equivalent

    29 June 2026

    Transition-linked bonds are more impactful than use-of-proceeds focused transition debt instruments, because they "hard-code" transition targets at issuer-level, according to an influential sustainable fixed income expert.

  • 'Won't know if we got the numbers right' on nature insurance, says AXA

    29 June 2026

    Insurers won't know for some years if they are pricing nature correctly, AXA recently told an event, amid debate about the role of parametric insurance.

  • Winners of EF's Sustainable Investment Awards 2026 revealed

    29 June 2026

    The winners of Environmental Finance's annual Sustainable Investment Awards 2026 have been announced.

  • The dark side of AI investment

    29 June 2026

    The fast-growing but loosely regulated artificial intelligence industry offers the potential for strong returns - but at what risk, asks Rob Langston

  • If insurance fails from climate risk, then the rest of finance will follow, says Aviva

    26 June 2026

    Climate risk is an existential threat not just to the insurance industry but to the broader financial services industry, an Aviva board member has warned, given its role in absorbing risk, but that needs to change.

  • UK-China taskforce eyes progress on transition finance amid political thaw

    26 June 2026

    The launch of a green bond index was hailed as a marker of UK-China collaboration, as a bilateral working group said a thaw in diplomatic relations could be a boon for work to promote transition finance flows between the two countries.

  • Time to move on from 'legacy' sustainability disclosure regimes

    26 June 2026

    As the UK continues to develop its forward-looking sustainability disclosure standards, a trade association has urged UK regulators to focus on "moving beyond" the "legacy" disclosure regimes already in place to cut down the number of rules.