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Sofidel: The Forum for Sustainable Finance

3BL Media

At European level, according to Morningstar’s findings, there has been an increase from less than 400 billion open-end funds and sustainable ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds that allow investors to manage risks associated with environmental, social and governance factors) in 2017 to about 2.5 trillion in 2022.

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Nasdaq 2022 Sustainability Report: Supporting the Investment Community

3BL Media

Our sustainable debt markets are designed to highlight sustainable investment opportunities to investors with a green, social or sustainable investment agenda. In addition, we launched the product with a group of 20 banks in Denmark that are providing SFDR overlays for all their retail customers.

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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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The Power of Results-Based Funding for Poverty Alleviation: What We Learned from Africa’s First-Ever Development Impact Bond – and What’s Next

James Militzer

The DIB and its program implementation launched in November 2017. The World Bank estimates that the combined crises of the last two years – the pandemic, rising prices and now the war in Ukraine – will lead to an additional 75 to 95 million people in extreme poverty in 2022. Problem-Solving to Address Pandemic Challenges.

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Asia’s Sovereigns to Embrace Sustainable Bonds

Chris Hall

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), which estimates a US$3.1 Global sustainable bond issuance surged in 2021, with data providers estimating total volumes just above or below US$1 trillion; green bonds accounted for roughly half. Developing economies globally need to invest as much as US$4.5 trillion) to reach the goals.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. She took matters into her own hands in 2017, when she founded the reusable underwear line Pantys , the first of its kind in Latin America. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health. At the U.N.

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