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HSBC UK Launches Sustainability Farming Pathway For Businesses HSBC UK Launches Sustainability Farming Pathway For Businesses

Stuart Mitchell

HSBC UK has launched the HSBC Sustainable Farming Pathway with sustainable farming charity LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) its first partner on the scheme. Farming businesses with the LEAF Marque certification, or those that complete a LEAF Sustainable Farming Review, will be eligible for discounted loan arrangement fees on term lending amounts from £25,001. Lending in scope includes flexible business loans, commercial mortgages and property development loans. Grace O’Dwyer, Interim Head of Agricultural Banking at HSBC UK says: “We are delighted to launch the HSBC Sustainable Farming Pathway to help…

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New public-private coalition launched to mobilize more than $1 billion to protect tropical forests and enhance global climate action

Stuart Mitchell

At the Leaders Summit on Climate a group of governments and companies announced the LEAF Coalition, an ambitious new public-private initiative designed to accelerate climate action by providing results-based finance to countries committed to protecting their tropical forests. This initiative aims to mobilize at least $1 billion in financing, kicking off what is expected to become one of the largest ever public-private efforts to help protect tropical forests, to the benefit of billions of people depending on them, and to support sustainable development. “The LEAF Coalition is a groundbreaking example…

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