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Deep Sky Signs Ten-Year Direct Air Capture Agreement with TD Bank for Over 18,000 Canadian Carbon Removal Credits

What the World’s Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund Expects From Companies

Norges Bank Investment Management owns close to 1.5% of the world's listed equity. Through published expectations on climate, nature, human rights and governance, backed by scoring, voting and divestment, NBIM increasingly sets the standard companies are measured against. Is it stewardship, or quiet regulation?

Ecobank Launches World's First ICMA Commercial Bank Nature Bond Raising $450 Million to Protect African Biodiversity

ISO Launches Net Zero Transition Planning Standard for Financial Institutions Under ISO 32212

Brazil's CVM Revokes Mandatory Sustainability Disclosure Requirement in Shift to Comply-or-Explain Framework

MIGA Issues $639 Million in Guarantees to Santander to Unlock Climate and Inclusion Lending in Colombia and Uruguay

Climeworks Solutions Signs 10-Year Carbon Removal Agreement with TD Bank Spanning Multiple North American Pathways

China Issues First Offshore Green Sovereign Bond in Hong Kong Raising 6 Billion Yuan to Fund Clean Energy

Standard Chartered Issues Inaugural HKD2 Billion Green Wonton Bond as First FIG Issuer in Hong Kong Market

Measuring the State of Nature for TNFD: Inside the NPI pilot with NatureHelm and New Forests

NatureHelm and New Forests put the Nature Positive Initiative's State of Nature metrics to the test across selected assets in five countries. The pilot shows what satellite data can and can't measure at scale, why landscape connectivity became the metric stakeholders cared about most, and what it means for measuring nature across a 4.4-million-hectare portfolio and for TNFD disclosure.

Pentagreen Capital Grows Blended Finance Program to $800 Million with DBS and Cathay United Bank

Sustainable Bond Issuance Hits $241 Billion in Q1 2026 with 18% Quarterly Rebound Despite Annual Decline: Moody's