Alex Doughty, Eversheds
- Environmental Finance and the IFC's Emerging Market Real Economy Sustainable Bonds report
- Sustainalytics brings in four-tier SPOs, in significant overhaul of framework
- Aviva releases first integrated climate-nature transition plan
- Does the EU's Omnibus reduce transition planning to a publicity exercise?
- Keep an eye out for 'nature positive' greenwashing, says ISS ESG
- COP16 negotiations end in 'landmark' deal for financing
- EU Omnibus: The end of 'the Brussels effect'?
- EBRD cautious with 'blue bonds' to avoid becoming a 'gimmick'
- Unlocking local currency finance: The EBRD's SME local currency programme
- TNFD starts piloting nature transition plans
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Natural capital projects looking to performance-linked instruments
05 March 2025Natural capital project developers are increasingly considering performance-linked debt, such as outcome bonds or sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs), to help attract more private finance, attendees at the Environmental Finance Natural Capital Investment EMEA 2025 conference heard.
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PCAF's guidance to set 'guardrails' for avoided emissions claims
05 March 2025Forthcoming guidance from the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) will set "guardrails" for financial institutions' claims of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions their investments 'avoid' - but corporate standard setters also need to act on the topic, PCAF's technical director said.
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Sustainable debt round-up: Austria, Lloyds Banking Group, Aegea ... and more
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'Liquidity needed to scale the debt-for-nature swap market'
05 March 2025More liquidity is needed to help scale interest in debt-for-nature swaps, particularly to make the instruments attractive to public debt-focused investors, an Environmental Finance conference has heard.
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'Resilience credits' could help finance mangrove protection
05 March 2025'Resilience credits' are a potential revenue stream for mangroves and other types of ecosystems, a conference heard.