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Winners of the 2023 Voluntary Carbon Market Awards revealed

The winners of Environmental Finance's 2023 Voluntary Carbon Market Awards have been announced.

TNFD developing 'mission critical' free nature data facility

Work has begun on development of a global, publicly accessible facility to provide nature-related data that could help investors, according to a group led by the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).

A first stab: French institutions try to calculate their biodiversity footprints

As French financial institutions for the first time estimate the scale of their impacts on nature, the numbers look bleak - but not comparable. Thomas Cox writes

Halt deep-sea mining 'madness', financial institutions urge governments

SocGen life insurer uses CDC data to calculate biodiversity footprint

The life insurance arm of Société Générale Group has published its biodiversity footprint using CDC Biodiversité's Global Biodiversity Score (GBS) tool.

Finance-backed roadmap for nature alignment launched

PBAF launches 'first' step-by-step nature dependencies approach

The Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF) has launched a five-step approach for financial institutions to assess their ecosystem services dependencies.

People moves 23 June, including Blackstone, Moody's, Temasek and more

TNFD metrics 'don't allow direct assessment of COP15 contribution'

The draft core disclosure metrics of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) do not show whether businesses are fulfilling a key goal of the final agreement from COP15, data providers and consultants have claimed.

Investor alliance preparing nature targets guidance

Guidance for investors on setting targets for nature should be launched by the end of the year by the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation (FfB), a director at the initiative said.