Many pension schemes have a poor understanding of impact investment strategies, Pensions for Purpose has claimed, stating they rely heavily on consultancies to help them fill gaps.

Performance-focused sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) are interesting tactical investments from a return perspective but are not yet appealing from a sustainability standpoint, a senior fixed income ...

Chinese regulators have published a new 'green catalogue', which unifies the green bond and loan taxonomies and continues the process of reducing the fragmentation of the green debt market in the ...

The Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has launched a net-zero standard for financial institutions that includes a requirement on ending fossil fuel financing.

Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) has raised CRC71.5 billion ($140 million) from the first social bond issued in the Costa Rican capital market.

The increasingly warm reception for Japanese sovereign transition bonds is encouraging, but a think tank argues tackling the liquidity challenge and attracting international investors could be key to ...

Scoping work around a 'pure-play taskforce' to develop guidance for applying sustainable loan labels to dedicated 'green' and 'social' borrowers has already yielded really interesting debates, ...

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Clarity on the phase-out period for renewables tax credits provided by details in US President Donald Trump's tax-and-spending bill has renewed optimism in the market, a US fund manager has claimed.

New Forests has revealed to Environmental Finance that it will be making its first investment in South Africa from its $200 million African Forestry Impact strategy within weeks.

NatureAlpha's data will be available through Intercontinental Exchange's (ICE) Climate Analytics Platform.

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