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On January 29, 2026, the European Banking Authority launched a consultation on draft amendments to its Systemic Risk Buffer Guidelines, integrating physical and transition climate risks under CRD VI. …
18 Feb 2026
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has launched its second Continuous Improvement Work Program on Permanence, focused on improving how reversal risk is assessed, monitored, and comp…
18 Feb 2026
Amazon has expanded its Sustainability Exchange carbon credit service to enable suppliers, customers, and Climate Pledge signatories to invest in credits generated from lower-carbon shipping fuels and…
18 Feb 2026
Melbourne-based renewable fuels company HAMR has closed a AUD 10 million (USD 7.1 million) Series A funding round backed by Qantas, Airbus, and thyssenkrupp. The investment will advance HAMR's pipelin…
13 Feb 2026
US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins has confirmed that the SEC is reviewing the 2023 amendments to the Names Rule, which require investment funds with names suggesting a focus on s…
12 Feb 2026
Deutsche Bank has raised EUR 500 million in a green bond offering, the first issued by the bank under the EU's European Green Bond standard, which requires all proceeds to be allocated to EU Taxonomy-…
11 Feb 2026
UK-based energy tech startup tem has raised USD 75 million in a Series B funding round led by Lightspeed, with proceeds aimed at scaling its AI software for buying and selling renewable electricity di…
11 Feb 2026
The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets released its third ESG Update on January 27, 2026, requiring sustainability claims to be accurate, specific, accessible, and substantiated to elimin…
10 Feb 2026
UNEP's State of Finance for Nature 2026 report, released January 22, 2026, found nature-negative finance flows of US$7.3 trillion annually versus only US$220 billion for nature-based solutions, a 30:1…
7 Feb 2026
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has approved three new carbon crediting methodologies, covering reforestation, improved forest management in US forestlands, and rice cultivation …
5 Feb 2026
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, with One Planet Business for Biodiversity, released a report providing financial institutions investment-useful metrics to fund regenerative agr…
3 Feb 2026
Stella, the investment entity of the Heinz Hermann Thiele Family Foundation, has appointed M&G's impact investing unit responsAbility to manage a EUR 200 million private equity impact fund targeting U…
30 Jan 2026
Transition-labelled bonds are set to be the fastest-growing segment of the sustainable bond market in 2026, with Moody's Ratings forecasting issuance to reach USD 40 billion, nearly double the record …
29 Jan 2026
Carbon-crediting platform Puro.earth has announced Puro Issuance Plus, a new service enabling large-scale carbon removal suppliers to bring verified CO2 Removal Certificates to market more frequently …
29 Jan 2026
The World Resources Institute released an update on January 14, 2026, highlighting rapid growth in biomass carbon removal and storage as a pathway for companies addressing hard-to-abate emissions. The…
23 Jan 2026
The World Economic Forum published a report at its 2026 Annual Meeting advocating market-based wildfire resilience through forest resilience bonds and performance-based finance. The framework's push t…
22 Jan 2026
M&G's impact investing unit responsAbility Investments has raised USD 460 million at the fifth closing of its Asia Climate Strategy, a fund targeting CO2 emissions reductions through investments in re…
21 Jan 2026
The UN Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) treaty entered into force on 17 January 2026 after over 15 years of negotiations, covering marine biodiversity in international waters. The lega…
20 Jan 2026
Mexico's Ministry of Finance and Public Credit has issued a series of sustainable bonds raising EUR 4.75 billion, the largest ESG-labelled bond issuance by a Latin American sovereign and the largest E…
20 Jan 2026
President Bola Tinubu launched Nigeria's National Carbon Market Framework at the 2026 Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, anchored on a National Carbon Market Activation Policy and National Carbon Registry…
16 Jan 2026
Microsoft has signed multiple carbon removal purchase agreements totalling nearly 5 million tonnes in the opening weeks of 2026, reinforcing its position as the world's largest corporate buyer of carb…
15 Jan 2026
The World Bank's State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2025 reports that emissions trading systems and carbon taxes now cover roughly 28 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, up from about 5 percen…
13 Jan 2026
Despite a difficult year for climate investor coalitions, PRI's Spring deforestation stewardship initiative grew to 240 investors managing over $19 trillion in assets in 2025, with 96 actively engagin…
13 Jan 2026
London-based AI and genomics startup Biographica has raised £7 million (US$9.4 million) in a Seed funding round to accelerate its creation of climate-resilient, productive and nutritious crops using a…
8 Jan 2026
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