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'Nuanced' transition frameworks crucial for meeting COP28 commitments, IEEFA claims

SDG data platform building use of AI to identify investments

An impact-focused data platform pioneered by Dutch asset owners APG and PGGM is increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to supplement human input, its research director has said.

IFC launches AI simplifying ESG data within emerging markets

Rivage lends €150m to European renewables developer

Blackstone backs California storage project with $350m

Investor calls for 'stable policy settings' to deliver transition in UK

SFDR - still a work-in-progress

What would investors like to see from Version 2.0 of the EU's much-maligned Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation? Michael Hurley reports

Snam steps away from transition bonds with green, SLB deal

Snam has raised €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) from a dual-tranche green and sustainability-linked bond, as the Italian energy infrastructure firm stepped back from the 'transition' bond label it helped pioneer.

Embrace the 'regenerative edge' of agriculture investments, says SLM

Investors have been urged to tap into the 'regenerative edge' that agriculture investments can provide, but nature investor Sustainable Land management Partners (SLM) warned about needing to be "realistic" about its limitations.

Fitch: Real estate slump sinks offshore Chinese sustainable bond market

Offshore Chinese sustainable bond issuance slumped a third in 2023 as issuance from the country's ailing property sector contracted significantly, according to Sustainable Fitch - but onshore issuance continued to grow.