We looked at the #NetZero commitments of 25 banks to sort out what is and isn’t working.​. Check out our new Net Zero Tracker to see what practices are leading the field and where improvement is needed to meet our global climate goals. 💻👉

If designed effectively, #CountryPlatforms could help secure the goal of financing #GreenGrowth. 📝Our expert note aims to inform governments interested in setting up these platforms to deliver climate, nature and development goals.👇.

The Grantham Research Institute’s 2025 #ClimateLitigation snapshot report finds that climate litigation is now recognized by “prominent market actors as a financially #MaterialRisk.”. Reporting by Ingrid Walker in @greenCB

Boitumelo Mosako, CEO of the Development Bank of Southern Africa, shares how #NDBs play a critical role in implementing #CountryPlatforms—from project preparation to financing climate resilience. Read our article to learn more about country platforms:

"Norges Bank Investment Management, the world’s largest sovereign-wealth fund, wants banks to begin accounting for the full scope of the emissions they enable through services such as loans and the underwriting of bonds.". Reporting by @FranSchwar

Despite the strong links between #ExtremeHeat and economic losses, #AssetManagers and banks have a difficult time translating these into financial losses by assessing how physical shocks transmit to asset prices. Reporting by @VirginiaFurness

💰 How can we get more #ClimateFinance to the individual people and communities that need it the most? Inclusive finance could offer answers. 📝 Our article lays out early examples of how financial innovation for climate impact can yield powerful results:

The UK announces that it is dropping its plan to create a UK Green Taxonomy, a key part of its #SustainableFinance framework. Reporting by @EsgToday

For years Environmental Finance has published its #ESG Data Guide compiling data sets from across the web to connect investors with the data needed to make ESG-informed decisions. This year's guide features over a dozen of WRI's data sets! 📊👇

"The G20's financial stability watchdog delivered a new plan on how to tackle #ClimateRisks on Monday, but paused further policy work amid a retreat by the US that has tested efforts to advance a united financial policy on climate-related risks."

Progress this year signals a growing recognition of nature-related risks and opportunities in the #FinancialSector. But we need a systemic shift — one that prioritizes long-term impacts over short-term gains and fully integrates nature-related risks. 📝➡️

Wealthy nations have only transferred $348M of the $789M that they pledged to the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (#FRLD), causing developing countries concern over the transparency and regularity of the promised payments. 📝 by @ClimateHome

"#HSBC Holdings Plc has left the world’s biggest climate alliance for banks, which was rocked earlier in the year by an exodus of many of its largest members.". Reporting by @AlastairJMarsh for @climate.

Valerie Laxton, our senior associate researching international financial institutions, reports out from Sevilla and #FfD4.

At its latest board meeting the Green Climate Fund (#GCF) approved record allocations of $1.225B for climate projects, part of its effort to scale up its activities in response to the global demands for #ClimateFinance.

🗓️ Join WRI tomorrow for a webinar exploring technologies that could drive #decarbonization in key industrial sectors in Vietnam and Indonesia and potential strategies to enhance their bankability and accelerate investment. ✅ Register now:

Government leaders at #FFD4 are pushing innovative tools to fund #SustainableDevelopment amid the climate crisis, including taxes on extreme wealth, luxury travel levies and debt swaps.

"For the first time in 2023, private climate finance exceeded $1T, thanks to household spending on EVs, rooftop solar and energy-efficient homes. In contrast. adaptation remains drastically underfunded."

▶️Watch @MMohieldin27 discuss MDB reform, debt, trade and #ClimateResilience in our recording of last week's webinar on #FFD4 and how finance can support #development, nature and climate:

"There is still little clarity on the path to mobilizing $1.3 trillion in climate-related funding for developing nations, a key promise made at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, last year."

To hear more from @AvinashPersau15 on debt, trade & CBAM, #MDB reform, #ClimateResilience and more, check out the recording of last week's webinar previewing #FFD4: