ESG Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Shades of Green’s Second Party Opinions (SPOs) are independent, research-based assessments on companies’ and governments’ green, sustainability and sustainability-linked debt issuances and frameworks, evaluating alignment with market standards, typically provided before any borrowing is raised. trillion now compared to $1.5

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And the IFC’s Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability have become industry practice across the DFI community when it comes to assessing and managing environmental, social and governance issues. As both the scale and the need for DFI TA programmes continue to grow, it’s time to start this conversation.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2025

The tenth anniversary of Nordic asset manager Storebrands Green Bond Fund offers a yardstick for the significant growth of and interest in green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition (GSS+) bonds during the last decade. Launched in 2015, the fund has hit almost SEK 11 billion (US$1.1

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The fund, which is labelled as Article 9 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), will have no fixed allocations across geographies, sub-subsectors or company stages, targeting wholesale and institutional investors with a “particular focus on high-net-worth individuals, family offices and private banks”.

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