On November 15, Energy Day at COP27, the World Bank Group announced the Hydrogen for Development Partnership (H4D), a new global initiative to boost the adoption of low-carbon hydrogen in… read more →

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) launched a just transition support platform on November 14. The initiative is part of ADB’s commitment to ensuring that the benefits of the shift to… read more →

Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke to president and CEO of BAFT at Sibos 2022 about the role that banking organisations can play in developing environment, social, governance (ESG) and sustainability best practices within global trade.

Tackling global warming cannot be successful without governments taking into account the important role of trade in meeting climate goals, according to Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Speaking at a high-level event… read more →

UK Export Finance (UKEF) announced on Finance Day at COP27, November 8, that it will become the first export credit agency (ECA) to offer Climate Resilient Debt Clauses (CRDC) in… read more →

The world of trade is changing. Increasingly, the topic of environmental responsibility is taking centre stage, with discourse specifically circling around how the finance industry can implement sustainability measures more effectively. 

In a strategic partnership between the UAE and the US, the two countries have signed the Partnership for Accelerating Clean Energy (PACE) and agreed to invest $100 billion in the… read more →

Singapore and Australia share longstanding economic, strategic, and people-to-people ties, underpinned by the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. These relations and multiple shared interests at regional and global levels have led them… read more →

The aim of the strategy – to “make Europe the first carbon-neutral continent” – was always ambitious. The question now is whether the events over the last 30 months have put the targets out of reach.

As natural capital and biodiversity rise up the global agenda, Planet Tracker examines the economic implications of countries’ dependence on nature. International trade is dependent on nature.  Around 40% of… read more →