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DBS launches SME-focused 'hybrid' green loan product

People Moves, 27 October: M&G, Impax, Deutsche Bank, Summa Equity and more

Investors 'trapped in quandary over whether 1.5°C is achievable'

Investors are "trapped" in a quandary of working towards targets based on keeping warming to 1.5°C, while confidence evaporates that countries and companies are reducing emissions at a fast enough rate to do so, an asset owner has warned.

How carbon markets can improve air quality and health

Clean cookstoves can help deliver eight of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, including poverty reduction, improved health, the empowerment of women and girls, and sustainable forest management, writes Chris McKinney

Impax and Bullfinch fund pens German solar farm acquisition

EFRAG outlines more than 1,000 datapoints to meet EU disclosure regulation

'Little correlation' between funds with sustainability labels and SFDR ambition

There is little correlation between funds that attain labels to prove their sustainability credentials and those that self-categorise as 'Article 9' funds under the most ambitious category of the EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), according to Novethic.

Loan round-up: Trafigura, Verde Agritech, Nexa Resources ... and more

Sustainable bond market will become 'too large to ignore' for US issuers

Despite a surprisingly lacklustre US sustainable bond issuance response to the massive climate-focused Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) stimulus package, a green bond investor argues that "problem" of cautious US issuers will soon "take care of itself" as the market grows.

Ninety One: Transition perpetuating 'climate colonialism'

Efforts to encourage emerging markets to transition often perpetuate "climate colonialism" and set "uneven goalposts", Ninety One has told Environmental Finance.