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Investors hail 'momentous' High Seas Treaty
06 March 2023Financiers welcomed the "milestone" UN agreement to protect a third of the High Seas by 2030, but cautioned that further action is needed to ensure it achieves its goals.
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EF's Sustainable Investment Awards open for entries
06 March 2023Entries to Environmental Finance's annual Sustainable Investment Awards are open until 14 April 2023.
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Indian stock exchange gets approval for 'social' segment
06 March 2023The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) has received regulatory approval to launch a Social Stock Exchange (SSE) to help enterprises finance social initiatives, including through pay-for-success Development Impact Bonds (DIBs).
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Cibus: Tree nurseries are a 'very fragmented space'
06 March 2023One of the key challenges to investing in companies that produce saplings is their small size, an issue reflected across natural capital, an executive at Cibus has said.
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People Moves 3 March: Impact Investing Institute, ING, Rathbone Greenbank, LeapFrog ... and more
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HSBC: 'Inklings' of more nuanced investor demands of SLB targets
03 March 2023HSBC said there are already "inklings" of investors returning to more nuanced assessments of sustainability-linked bonds (SLB) in 2023, with less pressure on issuers setting vague targets for emissions reductions in their value chains.
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Ariel Re to offset carbon in novel cat bond transaction
03 March 2023Property, casualty and specialty reinsurer Ariel Re has issued a $125m catastrophe bond with a mechanism that will help offset carbon emissions associated with having to replace damaged property.
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More consensus needed on impact, says Morningstar
03 March 2023More consensus is needed on the definition of an 'impact investment' to help the market continue expanding, Morningstar has said.
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Mirova: Biodiversity certificates need clear system to avoid greenwashing
02 March 2023A clear system for biodiversity certificates - also known as biodiversity credits - is needed to help avoid the risk of 'greenwashing', an executive at Mirova has said.
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Loan round-up: State Bank of India, social loan spotlight, Enea, Kimco Realty ... and more
02 March 2023
- Iceberg launches sovereign climate and biodiversity dataset
- COP29: 'Historic step' for carbon markets, as Article 6 crosses finish line
- SLBs linked to donations or carbon credit investments are 'promising'
- SEC likely to withdraw climate rules, former Commissioner predicts
- IDB Invest and IFC back BBVA Colombia for $100m sustainable bond issuance
- EU proposal to bring sustainable finance rules into single regulation risks 'chaos'
- The 'finance COP' short-changed the Global South, say investors
- Debt-for-nature deals are 'growing very rapidly and are very scalable'
- EU sustainability 'omnibus' regulations 'like a bad omelette'
- COP29: Financing Net Zero