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Largest financial institutions find water 'critical' to investment

RepRisk launches tool to address ESG ratings opacity

Credit research institute I-CV and ESG data business RepRisk have launched ESG Radar

Measuring the financial consequences of climate transition

Joseph Noss looks at why backward-looking emissions reporting provides no guarantee of reducing exposure to transition risk

Zurich excludes five fossil-fuel companies with non-credible transition plans

Zurich has excluded five companies from its investment and underwriting activities as it no longer considered their "progress against transition plans to be credible".

US regulator recommends creating category for environmental derivatives

A commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has recommended the creation of a team to tackle greenwashing in derivatives markets

Sustainalytics launches 'low carbon transition ratings'

Sustainalytics has launched Low Carbon Transition Ratings, which it said "provide investors with a forward-looking assessment of a company's current alignment to a net-zero pathway", as previously reported by Environmental Finance.

Federated Hermes, Finance Earth nature fund 'key' for UK biodiversity net gain projects

A UK nature impact fund co-managed by Finance Earth and Federated Hermes aims to be a key source of investment for peatland, woodland and biodiversity net gain (BNG) projects across the UK, according to an executive at Finance Earth

Brazil confirms sovereign sustainability bond debut plans for 2023

Brazil has confirmed that it is currently planning to issue a debut sustainability bond in 2023, rather than follow regional peers such as Chile and Uruguay with a sustainability-linked bond.

Accounting for Asia's biodiversity

The finance industry should develop its own methods of biodiversity accounting, argues ADM's Christopher Botsford

Fixing opacity when using voluntary carbon credits in SLBs

Voluntary carbon credits are once more in the limelight. Nonetheless, little attention is paid to the use of these credits in sustainable finance, write Cédric Merle, Gratien Davasse and Erwan Tobie