ESG Today

APRIL 16, 2024

green bond issuance, raising $2 billion to be used to finance renewable energy projects. The offering included $1 billion 10-year, and $1 billion 30-year tranches, and was RWE’s first green bond issuance outside of Europe. Germany-based power producer RWE announced the completion of its inaugural U.S.

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GreenBiz

JULY 21, 2020

Tue, 07/21/2020 - 04:13. Consider that it has convinced more than 70 Apple suppliers to use renewable energy to produce products on its behalf , an effort funded in part by close to $5 billion in green bonds issued by the technology giant as well as a dedicated pool of money in China. . Heather Clancy.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Out of its class A secured debt of £15 billion, about £3 billion is labelled green, potentially making the company a green bond default case. Green bonds are structurally no different to conventional bonds under the same class (with the same ranking, covenants and security package among all creditors in the case of distress).

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

Digital technology, green finance in vogue among fashion’s sustainability trendsetters. Wed, 08/05/2020 - 01:00. According to the 2020 Fashion Transparency Index survey, while 78 percent of brands have policies on energy and carbon emissions, only 16 percent publish data on the annual carbon footprints of their supply chain.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Mon, 11/30/2020 - 02:11. The world of environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting and investing has ramped up significantly over the past couple years, even more so during 2020, when social risks and reporting became front and center for many companies and investors. Introducing … GreenFin 21. Joel Makower.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 20, 2023

Most racially diverse executives: HP In 2020, under the leadership of its new CEO, Enrique Lores, HP announced a goal of doubling the number of its executives who are Black and African American by 2025. billion, thanks to environmental lending, lending through high-impact social loans and underwriting green bonds.

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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. Non-financial corporate issuance in the U.S.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

David Zahn , Head of Sustainable Fixed Income at Franklin Templeton , says new standards and innovations are expanding the supply of green bonds to meet increased investor demand. Investor demand for green, social, sustainability-linked and transition bonds (GSS+) continues to rise rapidly, outstripping supply.

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3BL Media

MARCH 30, 2022

Many investors are already familiar with green bonds, which have been on the market since 2007. Green bonds finance a specific project or projects with an environmentally beneficial purpose. Since then, companies have issued new types of bonds to finance a range of green, social and sustainable projects (Display).

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 7, 2024

So how long will it be until crypto earns its green credentials? Green investments are assets like bonds that pay for projects with positive environmental and social outcomes. Crypto investments on the other hand are widely seen as environmentally unfriendly, mainly because of crypto mining and the huge energy it demands.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Walmart announced the release of its first Green Bond Impact Report, indicating that the company has allocated $1.1 billion in green bond proceeds, with top investment areas including renewable energy, sustainable buildings, and waste reduction and circular economy initiatives.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 1, 2024

Green bonds continued to account for the majority of sustainable bond issuance at $146 billion for the quarter. Green bond volumes were down 12% year-over-year in the first half of 2024, driven by a sharp decline in Asia Pacific issuance.

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Environmental Finance

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Sustainable bond issuance in the third quarter of 2023 sunk to levels not seen for three years, as green bonds struggled to cross the $100 billion quarterly total for the first time since 2020.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 19, 2024

billion) from green bonds in 2025, which would represent the first reduction in annual issuance from the sovereign since it launched its innovative programme in 2020. Germany is planning to raise up to 15 billion ($15.7

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

1, 2021, Fifth Third Bancorp settled the issuance of its inaugural Green Bond for $500 million. The proceeds will fund green projects that align with the Company’s sustainability priorities, as outlined in the Fifth Third Bancorp Sustainable Bond Framework. With the issuance, Fifth Third became the first U.S. About TCFD.

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ESG Today

JULY 7, 2023

The new goal marks a substantial increase from Mizuho’s prior 2030 target, initially set in 2020, to implement JPY 25 trillion in sustainable finance, including JPY 12 trillion in environmental finance. billion green bond, its largest to date, and the largest-ever ESG bond issued by Japanese financial.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Fri, 12/04/2020 - 00:15. Switching to these systems can be costly, but, as Planet Tracker argues in its report, green bonds can be used to finance the transition. An answer to aquaculture's unsustainable fish feed habit? It certainly feels that way in aquaculture. On paper, fish farms should be a win for sustainability.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 28, 2024

Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, Iceland’s Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, talks about the country’s inaugural green bond issuance, which was promptly followed by the world’s first sovereign gender bond. This year has already started strong, with large-ticket green bond issuances from the EU, France, Austria and the UK.

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ESG Today

JULY 4, 2024

In a post announcing the new issuance, Deutsche Bank said: “With this milestone, we expand our ESG issuance programme, which began in 2020 with our first green bond issuance.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 11, 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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ESG Today

MAY 27, 2024

Peyton Creek II, currently under construction, is near RWE’s 243 MW Peyton Creek I wind farm in Bay City, Texas, which has been in operation since March 2020. The 200 MW Lane City project will begin construction this summer. According to RWE, the new projects will add to the company’s renewables portfolio in the U.S.

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ESG Today

JULY 18, 2022

Projects funded by social bonds can positively contribute to ten of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ranging from poverty reduction, hunger and gender inequality to boosting good-quality education and work. The post NN IP Expands Impact Range with New Social Bond Fund appeared first on ESG Today.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Tue, 12/08/2020 - 02:11. We’ll focus, as my learning journey did, primarily on ESG investing and green bonds and loans. Following the money: A sustainable finance odyssey. Joel Makower. I’ve been following the money this past week. The money," in this case, is the sprawling and spiraling world of sustainable finance.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 15, 2024

The company achieved its goal to meet 100% of its operational energy needs with renewable sources in 2020, and recently said that it anticipates adding 9.8 green bond issuance to be used to finance renewable energy projects. GW of renewable energy to local grids in the U.S. through its supported wind and solar projects by 2025.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2023

They have developed new innovations to build on products, such as green bonds and sustainability-linked loans, with new nature-based ideas added to the mix. In 2020, we were also awarded Sustainable Agency of the Year.

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ESG Today

JULY 31, 2023

In North America, however, volumes fell to $25 billion in the quarter, the lowest since Q2 2020, with share declining to only 4% of the overall bond market in the region. Market share rose as well to 12% in Asia Pacific, 29% in Middle East and Africa and 32% in Latin America and Caribbean.

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James Militzer

MAY 3, 2022

The latest Fair Finance India Policy Assessment 2020 noted this discrepancy, highlighting that assessed banks in India have scored highest on the themes of financial inclusion, followed by corruption and transparency and accountability, whereas they have scored very poorly on the environment theme, which includes climate change and nature.

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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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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

Leveraging Green Finance to Accelerate Low-Carbon Solutions. Since issuing its first green bond in 2017, CDL has secured more than S$3 billion of sustainable finance, comprising a green bond, various green loans and a sustainability-linked loan. billion – one of Singapore’s largest green loans.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

FTSE Russell launched its initial TPI Climate Transition Index in 2020. Climate factors considered include carbon emissions, green revenues, green bonds, and TPI inputs enabling a forward-looking view on company alignment with the goals of the Paris agreement, encompassing a management quality score and a carbon performance score.

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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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ESG Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

The new green loan follows the company’s announcement in 2021 of plans for its financing structure to have an increasingly higher percentage of green and sustainable products, estimated to account for nearly two-thirds of its debt by 2025. In December, Iberdrola announced a €5.3

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ESG Today

MARCH 25, 2024

The study found a “green rush” towards climate funds in both the private and public markets over the past few years, with more climate funds launched in private markets between 2020 and Q3 2023 than in the previous nine years combined, and with these new funds representing more than 70% of the $90.5

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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

MAY 16, 2022

75% of cocoa volume for chocolate brands sourced through Cocoa Life (+7 percentage points since 2020). 91% wheat volume needed for Europe business unit biscuits production grown under Harmony charter (+15 percentage points since 2020). 95% packaging designed to be recyclable (+1 percentage point since 2020). Snacking Mindfully.

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