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PBAF: 'High chance' of mandatory biodiversity reporting following COP15

The reporting of nature impacts by financial institutions is likely to become mandatory at biodiversity conference COP15, the chair of Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF) predicted.

CBA launches 'critical' product to scale Australian carbon credits

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has told Environmental Finance its innovative Australian carbon credit pre-payment transaction could be "critical" to de-risk and scale the market in the absence of futures.

Archax and CIC partner on 'digital carbon exchange'

Comment: Are SLBs correctly pricing transition risk?

Is transition risk really being priced in effectively by fixed income markets? Sustainability-linked bonds provide some useful insights into how it is not, Ahren Lester argues

EU asks regulator to 'consider merit' of Taxonomy-linked green loan label

The European Commission has asked the European Banking Authority (EBA) to "consider the merits" of creating a "green loan label" based on the EU Taxonomy.

Central banks 'right to support pricing of climate impacts', says Bank of Japan

Central banks should support financial institutions in accounting for the "negative externalities" of greenhouse gas emissions, including by providing finance to encourage the transition, according to the deputy governor of the Bank of Japan.

Mirova eyes biodiversity 'certificates' to enhance project profitability

Mirova hopes the nascent market for biodiversity "certificates" could increase the profitability of its investments in nature-based projects, an executive has said...

Carbon exchanges key to improving transparency on pricing, says FMSB

The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) says the voluntary carbon markets could be made more robust with greater transparency on pricing in exchange listings.

Q&A: The evolution of ESG data and regulation

In an increasingly complicated market, the cost of compliance with ESG regulations will increase, but the cost of litigation could be even higher, say Paul Watchman and Thomas Harding

Federated Hermes eyes 'impact' tech stocks

Technology companies that thrive in environmental, social and governance (ESG) indexes, but "just fall short" of counting as 'impactful' companies, are being closely monitored by Federated Hermes as potential investment opportunities.