While conservation urgently needs investment, creating nature-related financial markets holds its own challenges and cannot be seen as a panacea.

We should err on the side of caution when risk-weighting climate-exposed assets, but delaying action in its regulation is making a difficult problem worse.

Your quick guide to the week of January 16, 2023 on TheBanker.com.

Banks are under fire for failing to live up to commitments under the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero and continue to invest heavily in fossil fuel projects.

Marie Kemplay speaks to Joseph Nganga, vice-president for Africa at the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet, about the ambitious new Africa Carbon Markets Initiative.

As pressure mounts on multilateral lenders to finance the green transition, their approach to risk needs to adapt and governments in high-income countries need to play their part.

Sustainable finance debt issuance suffered declines across bond categories in 2022.

With climate change impacts becoming more apparent, it is time to up the ante on adaptation finance, suggests Harry Boyd-Carpenter, managing director of climate strategy and delivery at the EBRD.

Biodiversity is as crucial to zero emissions as it is to climate change, and carries the same financial risk, but will COP15 send investors the right signals?

Marie Kemplay explores significant developments underway within the voluntary carbon markets.