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Making the transition nature-positive: How sustainable finance taxonomies can play a key role

Sustainable finance taxonomies are key to shifting financial flows towards ‘nature-positive’ investments aligned with the transition. As transition planning and financing accelerates globally, the wider financial community should consider an important interlinkage: climate stability is interdependent on the health of our natural world. In a time of shifting sustainability sentiments, public and private decision-makers can leverage sustainable finance taxonomies that consider both climate and nature risks.

Making the Clean Industrial Deal bankable: Recommendations to scale sustainability across EU industry

In February 2025, the European Commission (EC) announced the Clean Industrial Deal (CID), the EU’s main industrial strategy and a key part of its climate policy. As leveraging private capital will be key to the CID’s success, policymakers, banks and industry representatives recently shared their recommendations for overcoming barriers and leveraging opportunities to help the CID achieve its transformative potential at an event convened by UNEP FI, the European Banking Federation, and the Net-Zero Banking Alliance.

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UN Ocean Conference: Key takeaways for financial institutions

The ocean is vital to the global economy, climate stability, and biodiversity, yet it remains vastly underfinanced and increasingly under threat. Earlier this month, at the third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) and related side events, a series of major announcements underscored the growing momentum to change that.