ESG Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Verizon Communications announced today that it has fully allocated the $1 billion in proceeds from its most recent green bond, issued in May 2023 , will the full amount directed towards investments in renewable energy, supporting the company’s clean energy targets. we are proud to help accelerate the greening of the U.S.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Verizon Communications announced that it has completed a new $1 billion green bond offering, with proceeds from the issuance to be allocated entirely towards renewable energy investments. The offering marks the sixth green bond issuance for Verizon, raising $6 billion since the launch of the company’s inaugural green bond in 2019.

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ESG Today

JULY 21, 2022

Food and beverage giant PepsiCo announced today the completion of a new green bond offering, raising $1.25 The announcement marks PepsiCo’s second green bond offering, following its inaugural $1 billion issuance in 2019. The post PepsiCo Issues $1.25

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 30, 2024

In response, Kenya and other African pioneers are exploring alternative financing mechanisms such as green bonds and debt-for-nature swaps. trillion in community green bonds in 2022, according to the African Development Bank Group. Europe alone issued more than $100 billion in green bonds that year.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

billion sustainability-linked credit facility in 2019, it did so as part of its sustainability-linked financing framework, and to mark its commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. For many companies, sustainability issues are increasingly becoming business issues, attracting the attention of the treasury and CFO offices.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2025

Others suggested taking inspiration from the green bond markets to develop European defence bond frameworks for funding projects of high strategic importance to European sovereignty. Introduced in 2019, Canadas carbon tax levied charges on both industry and consumers, with the latter receiving quarterly rebates.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

GreenFin 21 is the natural evolution of the GreenFin Summits we ran at our GreenBiz conferences in 2019 and 2020. What spurred us to launch the summits back in 2019 was the realization that these parties weren’t always speaking the same language or understanding one another’s needs. Tower of Babel. Fully 96 percent of U.S.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

Promising green finance developments in the fashion industry already are underway. Traditional lenders have begun to ink green bonds and sustainability-linked loans. In February, VF Corporation closed its $591 million green bond, marking the first green bond issued in the industry. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Third BIS green bond fund to channel central bank reserves to green projects in the Asia and Pacific region. . The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched a new green bond fund dedicated to help finance investments in green projects in the Asia and Pacific region.

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ESG Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Issuance volumes of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds rebounded strongly in Q1 2023, resuming double-digit growth trends after falling 18% in 2022, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service. While the U.S. Non-financial corporate issuance in the U.S.

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Environmental Finance

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

After not issuing a green bond since 2019, Export Development Canada has revealed to Environmental Finance that it will issue a green bond soon, and is considering its first-ever 'orange' bond.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The IEEFA’s Christina Ng says China’s state-owned enterprises continue to allocate up to half of their green bond proceeds to non-green projects. . China’s ambition to green its financial market has been making significant progress. SOEs accounted for about half the onshore green issuances from 2019 to 2022.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In 2019, when we first started holding our GreenFin Summits — the precursor events to GreenFin 21 — the focus was relatively narrow: the role of environmental, social and governance (ESG) data in the investing world. We’ll focus, as my learning journey did, primarily on ESG investing and green bonds and loans. Let me explain.

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ESG Today

JULY 7, 2023

Tokyo-based banking and financial services company Mizuho announced a new goal to facilitate JPY 100 trillion ($USD 700 billion) in sustainable finance between 2019 – 2030, including JPY 50 trillion in environment and climate change-related finance. Mizuho also announced the issuance of a $1.4

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In addition to volume growth, S&P also anticipates an expansion in bond types, with a more prominent presence for transition and blue bonds, even as green bonds continue to dominate. For 2024, the report forecasts GSSSB issuance volumes of $0.95 trillion to $1.05 trillion, growing slightly from $0.98 trillion to $1.05

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ESG Today

JULY 22, 2022

According to the bank, the announcement will result in a 20% carbon emissions reduction across Mizuho’s seven group companies, compared to 2019, marking a significant step towards the company’s climate goal to become carbon neutral for Scope 1 and 2 (operations and energy consumption) by 2030.

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ESG Today

JULY 5, 2023

Aeroporti di Roma (ADR), the manager and developer of Rome Fiumicino and Ciampino airports, announced the completion of a new 10-year €400 million sustainability-linked bond (SLB), with the cost of debt on the bond tied to a series of the airport operations group’s climate-related goals.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The 2021 TCFD Report demonstrates the Company’s progress in implementing the TCFD’s recommendations and summarizes the Bank’s advancement in climate-related disclosures since its inaugural report in late 2019. 1, 2021, Fifth Third Bancorp settled the issuance of its inaugural Green Bond for $500 million.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The announcement follows Verizon’s issuance earlier this year of its fourth $1 billion green bond. Verizon has allocated billions from green bond offerings over the past few years to scale up its use of renewable energy. In January, the company revealed that it had secured approximately 2.6

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Emerging Markets ESG

JUNE 21, 2022

In a press release distributed on June 21, 2022 Symbiotics reported that it has “ arranged two Green Bonds for a total of USD 17 million for Sun King (former Greenlight Planet INC), one of the largest solar companies in Africa and Asia, to deliver off-grid energy technologies to households across the two continents.

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3BL Media

MAY 26, 2022

Environmental sustainability -linked bonds and loans – aligns to third-party frameworks such as the Green Bond Principles and loans linked to environmental key performance indicators or those with designated environmentally sustainable use of proceeds. Calculating Financed Emissions. Enhancing Disclosures.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

Corporate interest in sustainability-linked loans has grown rapidly, as the financing provides flexibility to use proceeds for general corporate purposes, while with instruments such as green bonds, raised funds can only be allocated to specific categories of green projects.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2024

Agathe Foussard, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, Mirova, considers recent trends in sustainable bond investments. Launched in 2008, the sustainable bond market, particularly Green Bonds, grew continuously… until 2022, when the most dramatic interest rate increases in 40 years brought this expansion to a halt.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

The data collection will be carried out for the first time in 2024 and only at larger institutions (supervisory categories 1 to 3) Australian Treasury launches green bond framework The Australian Office of Financial Management and federal Treasury issued Australia’s Green Bond Framework.

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ESG Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Corporate interest in sustainability-linked loans has grown rapidly, as the financing provides flexibility to use proceeds for general corporate purposes, while with instruments such as green bonds, raised funds can only be allocated to specific categories of green projects.

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3BL Media

MARCH 23, 2022

Along the way, we achieved many “firsts,” such as being the first regional bank to publish a Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Report in 2019; to achieve 100% renewable power use through a single, solar project, also in 2019; and becoming the first regional bank to achieve carbon neutrality for its own operations in 2020.

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James Militzer

MAY 3, 2022

Green Financial Instruments: Contrasting India to the Global Market. In the global market there are dedicated ESG funds and green instruments (ranging from green bonds to green insurance ) to facilitate projects – not only in the domain of climate finance, but also focused on the environmental objectives necessary to support sustainability.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 1, 2023

In 2019, it released 58,000 tonnes of GHGs per 1,000 population, or 755,000 tonnes per 1,000 units of gross domestic product (GDP) (units are expressed in constant U.S. The report notes that revenues from oil sands bitumen account for 17% of Alberta’s total revenues.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 4, 2024

Justine Leigh-Bell, Executive Director at Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute, surveys the sustainability-linked bond market and outlines steps to widen the investor base. The market has grown to US$279 billion, totalling 768 bonds from 469 issuers as of November 2023, according to Climate Bonds Initiative’s (CBI) inaugural report on SLBs.

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3BL Media

JUNE 22, 2022

The company has been carbon neutral for its scope 1 and 2 emissions since 2019. Issued 16 green bonds between 2018-2021, and its global line of credit and additional lines of credit are linked to sustainability metrics. Prologis continues to be an industry leader in finding innovative ways to decarbonize our operations.”.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

If the targets are not met, the interest rate on the bond will increase by up to 0.25%, with an initial 0,125% step up as of September 2028 if the diversity target is missed, and a second increase in September 2030 if the emissions goal is not reached. Jacobs’ current female VP and above representation is 28%.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

The Swedish city of Gothenburg published the last iteration of its Green Bond Framework back in 2019. [9] The Swedish city of Gothenburg published the last iteration of its Green Bond Framework back in 2019. [9] To deliver ambitious environmental goals, Gothenburg uses green bonds to raise necessary funds.

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Chris Hall

MAY 16, 2024

Similarly to green bonds, SLBs have also been criticised for acting as a potential ‘ platform for greenwashing ‘ , with their proceeds sometimes not being used for sustainable causes. Italian energy utility Enel having issued the first-ever SLB in September 2019. billion (US$8.5 billion) in Q1 this year.

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Strategic Sustainability Consulting

JULY 7, 2021

A new way to fund sustainability and renewable energy investments is through green bonds. According to the Environmental Finance Bond Database , in 2020, “green, social and sustainability-linked bond issuances surpassed $600 billion, nearly double from the year before.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Singapore also recently issued its first green bond , kicking off a multi-year program aimed at raising up to S$35 billion to fund the country’s sustainable transition strategy. Singapore introduced a carbon tax in 2019, setting a price for emissions above a minimum level at $5 per tonne.

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3BL Media

JULY 11, 2023

Target-Based: ESG Bond Goals Have Expanded ESG-labeled bonds have come a long way quickly, and innovation shows no signs of slowing. UOPs, which are project-based, include green bonds and social bonds that firms issue to finance their environmental or social programs.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Two years later, Engine #1 sold its asset management business and invested over 700 million dollars into Brazilian miner Vale, the company responsible for the 2019 Brumadinho dam disaster that killed 270 people. Issuance of green bonds has more than tripled from 2017 to 2021.

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