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Taxonomania
14 April 2022Can the patchwork of taxonomies springing up across the world ever be reconciled, ask Genevieve Redgrave and Peter Cripps
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Energy efficiency's 'time has come', says financier
25 March 2022A fund that focuses on energy efficiency investments has raised £100 million ($130 million) on the same day it announced its intention to tap the market.
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Iceberg Data Lab completes 'sectoral mapping' for natural capital impact
11 March 2022Iceberg Data Lab has finished work to map different sectors of the economy according to the pressures they place on natural capital.
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EF's Sustainable Investment Awards open for entries
11 March 2022Entries to Environmental Finance's annual Sustainable Investment Awards are open until 14 April 2022
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Pass the Dutchie
24 February 2022A new sustainable bond fund excludes Dutch and Australian sovereign bonds. Peter Cripps reports
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Investor 'keeps faith' with disappointingly slow energy efficiency fund
10 February 2022An investor in a recently-launched energy efficiency fund said he is keeping faith with the company, after it admitted that its deployment of assets was progressing slower than expected, causing its shares to drop more than 10%.
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Extracting higher standards from the mining sector
03 February 2022A $20 trillion investor initiative is driving change in the mining industry, write Madeleine Jenkins and Peter Cripps
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EF Bond Data relaunched
27 January 2022The Environmental Finance Bond Database has been relaunched as Environmental Finance Data, or simply EF Data.
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Sustainable fund sells out of Tesla as valuation soars
26 January 2022A leading sustainability-focused fund revealed it has sold its stake in Tesla because of its soaring valuation.
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Renewables slump pushes award-winning funds into 2021 loss
06 January 2022An award-winning, impact-focused fund manager has lamented a lack of policy action to tackle climate change, as a fall in the value of clean energy holdings...
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- COP29: Financing Net Zero
- France launches voluntary biodiversity credit market
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- Finance Earth plans for life after Federated Hermes following withdrawal from collaborations
- Converting Bridgerton to Bog Hall
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- EU countries reject move to weaken Deforestation Regulation
- Fight or flight: Contract and financing considerations for UK SAF projects
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Webinar: COP29 a missed opportunity to support private sector transition planning
22 November 2024A lack of progress on negotiations at COP29 is undermining hopes that countries could support the creation of an international framework that would support private sector transition planning, a webinar hosted by the IFC and Environmental Finance heard.
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Bahamas signs 'ground-breaking' $300m debt-for-nature loan deal
22 November 2024The Bahamas has signed a $300 million loan with Standard Chartered as part of a ground-breaking marine conservation-focused debt conversion transaction developed with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
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Debt-for-nature deals are 'growing very rapidly and are very scalable'
22 November 2024The nature financing gap remains concerningly wide, but the increasingly active debt-for-nature market offers hope that the tide is turning. Ahren Lester reports
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Scaling Biodiversity Credits
21 November 2024The International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity credits launched at COP16 a framework consisting of 21 High-Level Principles to ensure the high-integrity of the biodiversity credit market. Ingrid Kukuljan explains what they hope to achieve
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Account for nature on balance sheets, says Sustainable Markets Initiative
21 November 2024The public and private sectors have been encouraged to account for nature as an asset by the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) to deliver more accurate balance sheet information.