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Take Five: Twin Peaks

Chris Hall

billion of the total – three times the 2016 level. The number of exchanges offering green bonds has increased from eight in 2016 to 34 in 2023, with a number listing a range of labelled bonds including social, sustainability-linked , green sukuk and gender-linked bonds. Importantly, adaptation finance accounted for US$32.4

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GSSS: A Direct Path to a Just Transition

Chris Hall

Sovereigns have been relatively late entrants to sustainable bond markets following corporates and supra-national entities (such as the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), which issued the first green debt securities in the mid-2000s.

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Africa’s GSS+ Bond Market Ripe for Growth

Chris Hall

Despite development barriers, opportunities are emerging for investment in sustainable assets in growing market. Africa has seen rapid growth in issuance of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSS+) bonds and could prove enticing to investors, in spite of existing challenges.

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Regenerative Fund Combines Forests, Farming and Carbon Removal

Chris Hall

Wiltshire said its team had invested more US$4.5

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Why the degrowth debate is growing

EJOLT

A Vocabulary for a new era ‘ and massive bi-annual conferences like the ongoing 2016 Budapest Degrowth Conference and Week. Today, “degrowth economics” is an activist academic discipline with dozens of top-quality peer reviewed papers , widely translated books like ‘ Degrowth.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Born in Seoul before immigrating to the United States at age 2, Morgan Collins followed his father into a career in finance, working with hedge funds and private equity firms including BlackRock, making the leap to the Starbucks treasury department in 2016. Resch sees her common career thread as what she calls "social sustainability.".

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