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Upright launches 'first-ever' open database for science-based impact

Evans and Partners backs Osmosis' ex-fossil fuels fund

Sustainable Debt Round-up: EU, EIB, Fingrid ... and more

Generalists can provide value-add to impact specialists on transactions

Institutional investors tend to allocate capital towards highly-focused, specialised impact investors rather than those taking a more generalist approach, but both types can add value to a deal.

MUFG, Doha Bank sign first Middle Eastern 'green repo' deal

MUFG and Doha Bank have finalised the first 'green repo' scheme signed in the Middle East, with the transaction using green bonds as the underlying collateral.

HSBC offering discounted loans for sustainable farming in the UK

Investors need clearer price signals from nature opportunities, says New Forests

Clearer price signals are needed to make nature positive investments "more economically attractive" to investors, according to Australian nature investor New Forests.

MSCI: 'Striking' rise of climate adaptation in utility green bonds

MSCI said there has been a "striking increase" in the prominence of climate adaptation projects in green bonds from the utility sector, as attention focuses on strengthening transmission assets to extreme weather.

'Standardisation is simplification, not burden': EFRAG's de Cambourg in riposte to Draghi

One of the key figures behind the EU's sustainability reporting standards has defended them after they were criticised by political heavyweight Mario Draghi as contributing to the sustainability reporting burden.

Sri Lanka's DFCC launches 'pivotal' LKR2bn green bond