News

  • Bloomberg launches nature risk tool

    16 October 2024

    Bloomberg has launched a tool for investors to assess the nature impacts and dependencies of around 45,000 companies.

  • TTMB readies 'first' domestic social bond in Trinidad and Tobago

    16 October 2024

    Trinidad and Tobago Mortgage Bank (TTMB) is working on a potential TTD550 million ($80 million) social bond, believed to be the first in the local capital market of the Caribbean country.

  • US, Japanese and UK banks lead 'forest-risk' investment

    16 October 2024

    Banks across the US, Japan and the UK are leading investment into 'forest-risk' companies driving tropical deforestation, Global Witness has claimed, labelling it as 'reckless financing'.

  • Ninety One launches sovereign biodiversity index

    16 October 2024

    Ninety One has launched an index to assess national nature and biodiversity risk.

  • Nature traceability systems needed to avoid 'reputational scrutiny'

    16 October 2024

    Investment into nature traceability systems is needed to avoid scrutiny, Planet Tracker has said, as it calls on companies to opt for a high level of supply chain disclosure.

  • ICMA: Sustainability-linked commercial paper 'existentially challenging - but exciting'

    15 October 2024

    The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) hopes its observations on the difficulties in identifying "best practice" on structuring sustainability-linked commercial paper (CP) will help focus the market on how to get the "existentially challenging" product viable at scale.

  • UK needs to 'catch up' on sustainability assurance

    15 October 2024

    Companies, investors and auditors have called for a UK regulatory framework for the assurance of sustainability reporting that is fully interoperable with international regulations.

  • 'Misperception of risk' preventing impact's boom

    15 October 2024

    A 'misperception of risk' between impact investors and capital allocators is limiting the growth of the impact investment asset class, the European Investment Bank has claimed.

  • TNFD to launch nature transition plan guidance discussion paper at COP16

    15 October 2024

    The Taskforce on Nature‑related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has confirmed it plans to launch a discussion paper on transition planning at the COP16 biodiversity summit.

  • "No interest" in biodiversity from US investors, Morningstar finds

    15 October 2024

    US investors have "no interest" in launching biodiversity funds, Morningstar has found, with new fund launches also slowing on a global basis.