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Sustainable debt round-up: MTA, Austria, Acciona ... and more

UK government confirms nature market accelerator launch

The UK government has confirmed plans to launch an industry-funded 'accelerator' group to bring "much needed coherence to nature markets", as part of wider plans to boost 'green finance'.

Blue Earth leads €28m in heating and cooling grids business

'World first' parametric wildfire insurance deal inked

A deal in California aims to incentivise sustainable forest management to prevent wildfire risk, and could be replicable across the globe. Genevieve Redgrave reports

Nuveen: PG&E credit upgrade 'not possible' without wildfire recovery bonds

The projects financed by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) through its Wildfire Recovery Bonds were "critical" to the recent credit rating upgrade for the US utility firm, according to Nuveen.

LPPI launches climate and nature fund

Revaia raises €250m for second fund

Aussie sustainable bond market 'buoyant' despite taxonomy timidity

Some potential issuers are holding back ahead of the launch of the Australian Taxonomy, Artesian's David Gallagher tells Ahren Lester

Impax completes fixed income assets acquisition

US banking regulator abandons climate risk principles

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has "withdrawn its participation" in maintaining principles for climate risk management by large financial institutions in the US, which it argued were "overly burdensome and duplicative".