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Dorothy Maseke: Unlocking Africa’s natural capital

January 2, 2024

How can financial authorities protect the value that underpins all human activity, nature? Dorothy Maseke, head of the African Natural Capital Alliance, outlines how Africa is rolling out nature-related disclosures. 

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MDBs move to address the biodiversity crisis

December 21, 2023

Nature and biodiversity are more difficult to ‘solve for’ than climate, says the EBRD, as it unveils its nature strategy.

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Mashreq partners with Visa and Ecolytiq to offer region’s first climate banking platform

December 20, 2023

With the rise of the sustainable consumer offering banks the opportunity to serve customers in a different way, Mashreq announces a MENA-first climate banking platform.

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Indonesia’s capital ambitions risk financial and environmental shortfalls

December 20, 2023

Indonesia’s ambitious plans for its new capital, Nusantara, are underway, yet there remains uncertainty of whether the president’s ambitious vision will be realised as there are questions over its green credentials and how the city will be financed.

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Why climate activism fails – and how to fix it

December 19, 2023

Financial crises and wars are taking world leaders’ focus away from climate action, but the younger generation of activists are up to the challenge of putting it back on the global agenda.

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Investments under increased scrutiny as FCA rolls out SDR regime

December 15, 2023

The UK’s anti-greenwashing regime has been strengthened as part of the Financial Conduct Authority’s new Sustainability Disclosure Requirements.

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The EBRD is out of its comfort zone on climate change

December 15, 2023

The EBRD’s climate strategy head gives us his take on COP28, why he believes the phasing out of fossil fuels is more a discussion about what happens in the 2040s, and why a global carbon price is still a long way off.  

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The battle of the standards for net-zero targets and emissions

December 15, 2023

Are standards developed to help banks set net-zero targets and report emissions being watered down?

Ayesha Begum

Levelling the playing field for minority ethnic groups

December 12, 2023

Fair4All Finance’s report looks at how ethnicity influences access to financial services in the UK.

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AIIB: natural capital is the future of investment

December 8, 2023

Taking a ‘do no harm’ approach is not ambitious enough, the AIIB says; rather it is time to redefine nature as infrastructure and transform the investment landscape. 

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