Breaking news – Sustainable Finance - July 2025

What's new on sustainable finance ?

📑 Financial Institutions Net-Zero Standard is out
In July 2025, the SBTi launched the Financial Institutions Net-Zero Standard, a science-based framework to help financial institutions align with net-zero by 2050. It guides target setting across lending, investing, and insurance, with a strong focus on engagement, fossil fuel phase-out, and data quality. The Standard empowers finance to drive real-world climate action.
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📑 ICMA Nature Bonds new guide & updates
At its Annual General Meeting, the Executive Committee, supported by the ICMA, published a new guide on Sustainable Bonds for Nature, along with several updates. This guide complements the existing Principles, with the option of using the secondary designation “Nature Bond” in addition to “Sustainable Bond.” It also highlights the potential of sustainability-linked bonds to include nature-related performance indicators.
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🇪🇺 European Commission's Nature Credits
The European Commission has released a roadmap towards nature credits to incentivise private investments into actions that protect and preserve nature, and reward those who undertake these actions and invest in them. A call for feedback is open until 30 September, alongside a call for expression of interest to join a new expert group.
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📑 CSRD reports analyses
The EFRAG just published an analysis of the 656 first CSRD published reports. In the document, it has established that the length of the CSRD reports has no incidence on the quality of sustainable engagements. Moreover, with no surprise, ESRS E1, S1 and G1 are the three ESRS mainly considered material while only 30% consider Biodiversity as material. Finally, even though 70% of the reports set a 1,5°C alignment target, only 40% include scope 3 as well as scope 1 and 2 in that target.
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