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- Products
Blended finance fuels a $461 million Asia climate close
The close put public risk capital to work in climate private credit. The unspent $257 million is the test.
- Transition Finance
Mantel raises $18M to put carbon capture in real plants
The startup's named deployments, not the round size, mark carbon capture's shift from lab chemistry to industrial contracting.
- The Wrap
Public capital takes the transition's riskiest corner
Disclosure rules slip while DOE, Tesla and a $155 million fund buy the supply chain.
- Policy & Disclosure
Australia weighs a lighter climate assurance timeline
Treasury consultation could delay or drop the move to reasonable assurance while drawing clearer Scope 3 boundaries for suppliers.
- Transition Finance
SBTi's nature lane opens a transition-finance book
The updated net-zero standard makes nature-based mitigation a scheduled, governed line item, giving transition finance a standardized demand signal to price against.
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- Transition Finance
Amazon and Singularity back Indian agri-waste fuel startup
The round is small, but Amazon's involvement tells the market where transition finance in India is heading.
- Policy & Disclosure
Carbon accounting overhaul slips to 2027
GHG Protocol's corporate standard and insets rulebook now share a Q2 2027 date, buying companies time but not simplicity.
- Policy & Disclosure
Vietnam-Singapore carbon deal, awaiting its rules
The approved transfer framework gives Vietnam a legal channel to Singapore, but the methodologies that would fill it are still unwritten.
- Transition Finance
DOE's $500M critical minerals bet is supply-side transition finance
Direct public capital meets battery processing and recycling, with the government absorbing early-stage risk private capital has largely avoided.
- 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.