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  • Asian investors brace for fossil fuel 'inflection point'

    29 October 2024

    Despite labelling fossil fuels as "unattractive" in the long term, many Asian investors are still willing to capitalise on profits in the short term, an investor survey has found.

  • Barbados 'set to launch $300m water-focused debt swap'

    29 October 2024

    By Peter Cripps at COP16 in Cali, Colombia

  • Aviva Investors launches carbon removal fund

    29 October 2024

    Aviva Investors has launched a carbon removal fund for institutional investors investing in nature-based and engineered carbon removal solutions and projects that provide 'high-integrity' carbon removal credits.

  • EdenTree launches sustainable government bond fund

    29 October 2024

    Specialist sustainable asset manager EdenTree Investment Management (IM) has launched a government debt fund focused on labelled sustainable bonds, such as green bonds.

  • EU-China common ground taxonomy to be expanded at COP29

    29 October 2024

    The EU-China Common Ground Taxonomy (CGT) is to be expanded at COP29, Ma Jun has revealed.

  • Eight governments pledge over $160m to Global Biodiversity Framework Fund

    29 October 2024

    Eight more governments have pledged an additional $163 million to the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) at COP16 in Cali, Colombia, including the UK, France and Germany.

  • Webinar: Vague definition of greenwashing deters 'transition' finance

    29 October 2024

    The growth of 'transition' finance is being held back by fears among debt issuers of being accused of greenwashing - a situation exacerbated by national regulators failing to clearly define what constituted greenwashing, a webinar hosted by Environmental Finance heard.

  • ESMA opens sustainable bond prospectus technical advice consultation

    29 October 2024

    The European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) has opened a consultation on proposed technical advice on sustainability disclosures updates to the EU bond prospectus regulation, including around post-issuance reporting requirements.

  • Companies are in early stages of addressing nature impacts, confirms first NA100 Benchmark

    29 October 2024

    From Peter Cripps at COP16 in Colombia

  • COP16: 'High-integrity' biodiversity credit framework launches - and says 'no to international offsetting'

    29 October 2024

    A framework has been launched at COP16 to guide the growth of a "high-integrity" biodiversity credit market, with one of its key pieces of guidance being that it does not support "international offsetting".