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Nippon Life Unveils Nature Finance Approach With ERM Backing

Nippon Life Unveils Nature Finance Approach With ERM Backing

Август 19, 2025 Комментариев нет

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

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

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

Август 15, 2025 Комментариев нет

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

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

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

Август 11, 2025 Комментариев нет

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

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

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

Июль 29, 2025 Комментариев нет

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

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

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

Июль 22, 2025 Комментариев нет

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

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

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

Июль 18, 2025 Комментариев нет

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

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Pacific Island Countries Unite to Launch Regional Biodiversity Finance Programme

Pacific Island Countries Unite to Launch Regional Biodiversity Finance Programme

Июль 11, 2025 Комментариев нет

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

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