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  • Central banks battling 'major data challenges' on nature, warns FSB

    18 July 2024

    Central banks and regulators' attempts to understand nature risks are being hindered by "major data and modelling challenges", the Financial Stability Board has warned.

  • EIT InnoEnergy 'tops up' €140m funding with new shareholders

    18 July 2024
  • Summa Equity-backed NG Group acquires Fortum's recycling business for €800m

    18 July 2024
  • Abris sells Polish packaging business in trade exit

    18 July 2024
  • S&P extends 'shades of green' to transition plan assessments

    18 July 2024

    S&P Global Ratings has extended its 'shades of green' methodology for judging labelled bonds to assess the credibility of companies' climate transition plans, with the launch of a product it said would help companies attract "transition finance".

  • CBI certification 'very difficult' for Japanese transition bonds

    18 July 2024

    Japan has confirmed it is not looking to certify its upcoming transition bonds with the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) due to challenges posed by its diverse framework, including around funding innovative start-ups.

  • UNEP FI launches resources for banks to benefit from the circular economy

    18 July 2024

    The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has launched a series of resources designed to help banks and clients implement circularity within their businesses and portfolios.

  • US banks 'concerned' Basel climate scenario work could affect capital adequacy ratios

    17 July 2024

    An influential group of some of the US' biggest banks has said it is "concerned" that work by the Basel Committee could prematurely lead banking supervisors to change capital adequacy requirements based on the results of climate scenario analysis.

  • Sustainable Debt Round-up: EBRD, Netherlands, Gunvor ... and more

    17 July 2024
  • Green bonds and biodiversity: a challenge and an opportunity

    17 July 2024

    Greater transparency will make it easier to steer capital towards the theme of biodiversity, which is so essential to securing the sustainability of our economic activity, writes Louis Wuyam