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- Transition Finance
Softer EV targets reprice the UK charge point rollout
The ten-week consultation could postpone £1.56bn in charge point investment and test how much policy risk institutions will absorb.
- Products
WovenEarth closes $155m cleantech fund-of-funds where curation is the product
One check buys seven underlying funds, 20 direct co-investments and a 250-company book, betting that curation carries the cleantech shelf.
- Products
World Bank's $4B sustainable bond draws $11B in orders
A core-buyer order book and a tight spread show labeled credit still clears at scale; transition finance now needs to prove it can.
- Transition Finance
Tesla's $10.1B Texas solar bet hinges on a tax break
Fort Bend County's Project Crystal Sun would test whether property-tax incentives can anchor a domestic solar supply chain.
- Products
WovenEarth closes $155M cleantech fund, leans on co-investments
Fund II will ride seven underlying funds and 20 direct co-investments into a portfolio of more than 250 early-stage companies.
- Products
Redstone's Blue fund lands €25 million first close with a maritime cap table
A cap table of ports, shipowners, and marine corporates could speed ocean-tech exits, or import the incumbents' caution.
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- The Wrap
Microsoft pulls back, and carbon removal has to grow up
An 80% cut in purchases and a 66% sales contraction end the single-buyer era. Startups and raters now have to build a real market.
- The Wrap
Nature risk won't net out across a portfolio
Wildfire redraws the Tour de France; a wheel of Parmesan serves as loan collateral. Responsible Investor's case: nature is place-based and can't be averaged away.
- Transition Finance
Mafix raises $5.4M pre-seed for rock-based carbon-removing fertilizer
The Stanford spinout will use the capital to prove its fast-weathering rock process inside cement kilns and produce 1,000 tons of fertilizer.
- The Wrap
Transition debt builds its own reporting and verification rails
A shared carbon ledger, a labeled bank framework, and a pension screen arrived this week. Transition debt now has the plumbing to price like standardized credit.
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- Policy & Disclosure
Verra and Gold Standard combine Article 6.2 bookkeeping
The two registries' joint tool gives host countries a single record of authorized credits ahead of 2026 transparency reports.
- Policy & Disclosure
CPP Investments now splits its portfolio by carbon intensity and transition governance
The C$787 billion fund reports that 86.7% of its corporate holdings sat below a 40-tonne carbon line. It also adds a confirmed/unconfirmed governance screen to the same disclosure.
- Products
World Bank's $4 billion bond shows sustainable credit clears at scale
The World Bank's seven-year benchmark was more than two and a half times subscribed. It drew institutional capital and priced 3.9 basis points over Treasuries.
- Policy & Disclosure
CPP Investments splits C$787 billion portfolio by carbon intensity and governance
The new two-axis disclosure turns a carbon figure into a governance screen other allocators can adapt.
- Who's investing
GIC names analyst-trained investor to head sustainability office
The appointment applies the same return-on-capital standard to climate strategy as to GIC's other investments.
- Transition Finance
Emirates NBD launches UAE's first transition finance framework
New framework gives hard-to-abate borrowers a labeled route to decarbonization finance.
- Products
Ninety One's third Africa credit fund takes strategy near $1 billion
The $404 million close, backed by pensions, DFIs and family offices, lifts cumulative fundraising for the strategy near $1 billion.
- Who's investing
Recreatie swaps BlackRock for Cardano on €426m equity mandate
The Dutch hospitality fund's decision extends a pattern of European asset owners cutting ties with big US managers over climate stewardship.
- Products
Ottawa Community Land Trust retail bond courts everyday investors
The bond tests whether a housing nonprofit can sell its mission to retail investors.
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- Products
Murdoch heir sets All Aboard climate coalition up for the long run
A possible miss on $300 million hasn't stopped the Murdoch heir from planning in decades.
- Policy & Disclosure
Germany fast-tracks carbon storage with a public-interest label
A cabinet bill classifies CO2 pipelines and storage as public-interest infrastructure, changing the risk calculation for transition capital.
- Policy & Disclosure
Switzerland proposes EU-aligned corporate sustainability act
Large Swiss companies would face EU-aligned due diligence and reporting, with an explicit pledge not to exceed Brussels' rules.
- Policy & Disclosure
EU issues ten CBAM compliance guides for the 2026 definitive period
Importers face stricter carbon-accounting and verification rules as the border mechanism moves from reporting to financial liability.
- Policy & Disclosure
SBTi's net-zero overhaul creates two tiers of credibility
Under the revised standard, credibility is measured by what companies do with emissions that remain after their targets are met.
- Policy & Disclosure
Germany holds carbon price corridor through 2027
The cabinet's BEHG amendment keeps allowances at $64-$75 per tonne and delays the move to EU-linked pricing.
- The Wrap
Norway and Exxon Move Climate Disclosure Fight Into Legal Process
Disclosure disputes now run through arbitration and courts, a shift with consequences for wealth managers.
- Transition Finance
Senken signs 50,000-ton biomass carbon removal deal with Carbonsate
Multi-year offtake gives Carbonsate the certainty to expand its Namibia storage sites.
- Products
All Aboard closes $133M fund for climate's missing middle
The fund waits for several independent investors to agree on the same round before committing, and a family office has joined its manager.
- Transition Finance
Ceres: transition plans turn climate analysis into decisions
A Ceres review finds climate-risk analysis doesn't change portfolios without a written transition plan — and argues the plan is now a competitive advantage.
- Policy & Disclosure
The SEC's no-action pause is pushing proxy fights into court
Sustainable Brands says a silent SEC is moving shareholder disputes from a rules-based channel to litigation.
- The Wrap
Energy transition capital moves into private hands
Three deals this week show clean-energy capital leaving public exchanges for private books.
- Transition Finance
Standard Life's biomass loan puts matching adjustment to work
The £61 million Snetterton financing is the first deal under Standard Life's new Project Infrastructure structure, a solvency-driven route for insurer capital into infrastructure.
- Transition Finance
BP to sell $4.1B Archaea Energy in capital-light pivot
BP's renewable natural gas platform is for sale as it nears its projected cash-flow turn.
- Policy & Disclosure
LAPFF and CCLA press FTSE 100 holdouts for sixth year
One in five FTSE 100 companies now puts a transition plan to a shareholder vote; BP, Barclays and Lloyds are the notable absentees.
- Policy & Disclosure
SEC no-action pause pushes proxy fights to court
A Sustainable Brands essay argues that the SEC's no-action pause removes the predictability that once kept proxy fights out of court.
- Transition Finance
BeZero puts Microsoft's carbon-removal diligence on the record
Fourteen ex ante ratings show how a major corporate buyer vets credits before issuance.
- Products
Blue Earth's impact secondaries fund gives LPs an exit
A $200 million vehicle backed by the Walton family office puts a price on liquidity in impact investing.
- Transition Finance
Emirates NBD writes the rulebook for its $30 billion transition pledge
Emirates NBD now defines which hard-to-abate borrowers count toward its $30 billion mobilization target.
- Transition Finance
Microsoft's retreat shrinks the carbon-removal market it built
Microsoft cut its purchases by 80% through mid-July. Global carbon-removal credit sales fell 66% as the young market lost its anchor buyer.
- Transition Finance
Nuclea Energy to buy Moltex nuclear portfolio in cash deal
The all-cash purchase, subject to UK approval, would add Moltex's fuel recycling process and two reactor designs to Nuclea.