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Swiss Re acquires flood modelling business

Reinsurance provider Swiss Re has acquired UK-based water risk intelligence and flood modelling business, Fathom, for an undisclosed sum.

HKMA confirms it is 'fine-tuning' final Hong Kong taxonomy

Hy24 targets Middle East renewable opportunities with Masdar

Dutch pension fund: We struggle to measure positive biodiversity impact

Dutch pension fund Rail & OV plans to move to the "next phase" on integrating nature into its investment processes, but admits it still struggles to assess companies' impact on biodiversity.

Nature the 'green scorpion' in the room, warns Oxford University

"Nature is not the elephant in the room, it's the huge green scorpion running towards us. The sting in its tail will significantly amplify the impacts of climate change in ways that are difficult to predict".

Finance sector action on deforestation is a no-brainer

Eliminating deforestation is a vital bridge between the climate and nature crises, writes Freya Bannochie

Sustainable bond market returns to growth in 2023

Sustainable bond issuance in 2023 has surpassed the $925 billion total raised in the whole of 2022, as strong sovereign activity more than offset contracting corporate volumes.

NGFS encourages central banks to tackle nature-related risks

The Network for Greening the Financial System has encouraged central banks and supervisors to further tackle nature-related risks, especially through the development of nature-risk scenario analysis.

Call for EU to create 'taxonomy-aligning' benchmarks

The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance has proposed 'taxonomy-aligning' benchmarks that would select constituents based on the percentage of their investments in activities aligned with the EU's taxonomy.