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  • Australia's Commonwealth Bank says it will only finance fossil fuels backed by transition plan

    20 August 2024

    Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has won praise for saying it will not provide new financing to major fossil fuel companies that do not have a credible climate transition plan.

  • COP29 to focus on finance - but Trump could poop on the party

    20 August 2024

    Will the climate conference in the petrostate keep 1.5°C alive, or be a forum for oil and gas deals, asks Peter Cripps

  • Catalysing private investment in UK's transition 'a failing strategy', warns academic

    19 August 2024

    The UK government should stop trying to de-risk private investment, an academic has argued, instead calling for major uptick in government bond issuances to invest in green infrastructure.

  • Sustainable Debt Americas 2024: early bird ends on Friday

    19 August 2024

    The early bird rate for Environmental Finance's annual Sustainable Debt Americas conference will end this Friday, so register now to save 20%. Environmental Finance subscribers receive a further 30% discount.

  • Polluting firms accelerated fossil fuel investment after Paris Agreement, study says

    19 August 2024
  • Emirates NBD developing 'Sharia first' sustainable finance framework

    19 August 2024

    Emirates NBD is preparing to publish an innovative framework for sustainable bond and sukuk issuance in October, which it hopes will help scale the Islamic sustainable finance market.

  • BII invests $35m for 'first' Congo deepwater maritime port

    19 August 2024
  • Oikocredit, IDH plot to improve funding for smallerholder farms in EMs

    19 August 2024
  • California attorney general backs SEC climate rule in legal filing

    19 August 2024
  • Planet Tracker expands nature scorecards

    19 August 2024

    Planet Tracker has expanded its scorecards for over 1,000 companies, to better reflect new market initiatives, including the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).