Natasha White

A dramatic rebound in clean-tech stocks has investors in the green economy hoping they can finally turn the page on years of punishing underperformance.

Zoma Lab, the family office of Walmart Inc. heir Ben Walton, has committed $100 million to a new facility to expand the market for so-called debt swaps designed to help finance climate and environmental projects.

Man Group Plc, the world’s largest publicly traded hedge-fund manager, is seeing growth in client flows as a number of institutional investors in Europe reassign mandates based on sustainability criteria.

The Climate Investment Funds, a $13 billion multilateral vehicle that sits inside the World Bank, has raised $100 million in funding from Germany and Spain for a new program designed to help poor countries withstand the fallout from climate change.

A booming year for clean-tech, even as analysts caution that fundamentals and emissions risks still loom. By Natasha White, Alastair Marsh and Coco Liu, Bloomberg

More countries are banning plastics made with additives that manufacturers say can make them decompose.

After two weeks of flood, fire, protests and coffee-fueled late-night negotiations, COP30 has reached a close. The deal left many nations frustrated with its lack of ambition. Today’s newsletter covers the six key takeaways from this year’s talks and where it leaves the world in its efforts to cut emissions and adapt to a hotter planet.

A boutique private-credit firm set up by former Credit Suisse bankers has agreed to provide a lending facility to support a new carbon program in the Bahamas.

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Overvalued offsets are nothing new. But some emissions-reduction projects don’t appear to exist at all, a Bloomberg investigation found