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Nippon Life Unveils Nature Finance Approach With ERM Backing

August 19, 2025 No Comments

Tokyo-Based Insurer Steps Into Nature Finance Nippon Life Insurance Co. has launched a “Nature Finance Approach” to measure how corporate activity affects ecosystems, with development support from sustainability consultancy ERM. The framework adapts the Planetary Boundaries concept, developed by the Stockholm Resilience Centre, into financing decisions. It gauges impacts using

Financial Giants Fuel $8.9 Trillion Deforestation Economy, Forest 500 Warns

August 15, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points Billions Flow to Forest-Risk Commodities The 2025 Forest 500 – Finance report finds that the 150 financial institutions with the greatest exposure to deforestation risk channelled $8.9 trillion in 2024 to 500 companies linked to the production, processing, and trade of nine forest-risk commodities, including beef, palm

Brazil Stands Firm on Belém for COP30, Despite Fears Over Soaring Costs and Scarce Lodging

August 15, 2025 No Comments

BELÉM, Brazil — The Brazilian government has delivered a blunt message to its fellow United Nations climate negotiators: the next major climate summit will not be moved. In a document sent to the 11-member Bureau of the UN Climate Change Conference — the group of senior negotiators and officials that

Standard Chartered Partners with Brazil’s Acre to Launch 5 Million Amazon Forest Carbon Credits

August 11, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: Landmark Bank–State Partnership in Forest Carbon Markets Standard Chartered has signed a five-year agreement with the Government of Acre, Brazil, to bring high-integrity jurisdictional forest carbon credits to market, potentially releasing 5 million credits in 2026. Located in the Amazon rainforest, Acre will use the programme to

GRI Launches New Courses to Strengthen Climate and Nature Reporting Skills for Corporate Transparency

July 29, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: GRI Academy Expands Curriculum for Sustainability Professionals As climate and biodiversity crises deepen, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is taking steps to help organizations improve how they disclose environmental impacts. The GRI Academy has launched two new online courses to equip sustainability professionals with the tools to

WWF Urges Global Leaders to Finalize Binding Plastics Treaty at Geneva Talks

July 29, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: High Stakes as Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations Reach Final Stage With the final round of global plastic treaty negotiations (INC-5.2) set to begin in Geneva, WWF is calling on countries to urgently unite behind a legally binding agreement that can end the plastic pollution crisis. “If we

UNDP, TNFD, and KPMG Launch ‘NATURE-INSURE’ to Equip Insurance Supervisors for Biodiversity Risk

July 22, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: Global Push to Strengthen Biodiversity Risk Supervision UNDP’s Sustainable Insurance Forum (SIF), the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), and KPMG have launched a new global capacity-building programme, NATURE-INSURE, aimed at helping insurance supervisors tackle the growing threat of biodiversity and ecosystem risks to financial systems. As

Sustainable Finance Taxonomies Key to Driving Nature-Positive Investments, Say UNEP FI and WWF

July 22, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: Nature and Climate: Two Sides of the Same Coin Sustainable finance taxonomies are emerging as a critical tool in aligning global capital with both climate and nature goals, according to Sem Houben and Emily Dahl in an opinion piece for the July 2025 edition of OMFIF Sustainable

LSE: Overlooking nature is no longer an option for fiscal policy and debt sustainability analyses

July 18, 2025 No Comments

by LSE Environmental degradation is a structural economic risk rather than a peripheral concern. Nicola Ranger, Carlo Pasqua and Christopher Adam explain why, as international financial institutions review the IMF-World Bank Debt Sustainability Framework, integrating nature must be a core priority. Integrating nature into fiscal policy is a critical priority

Pacific Island Countries Unite to Launch Regional Biodiversity Finance Programme

July 11, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: Pacific Nations Unite for Biodiversity Finance Breakthrough Government representatives from 15 Pacific Island Countries and Territories have officially launched the Pacific Biodiversity Finance (BIOFIN) Umbrella Programme at a four-day inception workshop in Pacific Harbour, Fiji. Funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF-8), the programme marks a major

August 19, 2025 No Comments

Financial Giants Fuel $8.9 Trillion Deforestation Economy, Forest 500 Warns

August 15, 2025 No Comments

Brazil Stands Firm on Belém for COP30, Despite Fears Over Soaring Costs and Scarce Lodging

August 15, 2025 No Comments

Standard Chartered Partners with Brazil’s Acre to Launch 5 Million Amazon Forest Carbon Credits

August 11, 2025 No Comments

GRI Launches New Courses to Strengthen Climate and Nature Reporting Skills for Corporate Transparency

July 29, 2025 No Comments

WWF Urges Global Leaders to Finalize Binding Plastics Treaty at Geneva Talks

July 29, 2025 No Comments

UNDP, TNFD, and KPMG Launch ‘NATURE-INSURE’ to Equip Insurance Supervisors for Biodiversity Risk

July 22, 2025 No Comments

Sustainable Finance Taxonomies Key to Driving Nature-Positive Investments, Say UNEP FI and WWF

July 22, 2025 No Comments

LSE: Overlooking nature is no longer an option for fiscal policy and debt sustainability analyses

July 18, 2025 No Comments

Pacific Island Countries Unite to Launch Regional Biodiversity Finance Programme

July 11, 2025 No Comments

Nature & Biodiversity

Nippon Life Unveils Nature Finance Approach With ERM Backing

Financial Giants Fuel $8.9 Trillion Deforestation Economy, Forest 500 Warns

Brazil Stands Firm on Belém for COP30, Despite Fears Over Soaring Costs and Scarce Lodging

Standard Chartered Partners with Brazil’s Acre to Launch 5 Million Amazon Forest Carbon Credits

GRI Launches New Courses to Strengthen Climate and Nature Reporting Skills for Corporate Transparency

WWF Urges Global Leaders to Finalize Binding Plastics Treaty at Geneva Talks

Sustainable Finance Taxonomies Key to Driving Nature-Positive Investments, Say UNEP FI and WWF

LSE: Overlooking nature is no longer an option for fiscal policy and debt sustainability analyses

Pacific Island Countries Unite to Launch Regional Biodiversity Finance Programme

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