ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The labelled bond space has exploded, with labelled issuance growing 69% between 2020 and 2021. Up until now, many ESG analyses have focused primarily on environmental risks and impacts, particularly as issuance has predominately been skewed towards Green bonds. Identifying and avoiding greenwashing. Access Report.

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Strategic Sustainability Consulting

JULY 7, 2021

Without a realistic, actionable plan in place, companies are either ignoring climate impacts or simply greenwashing. A new way to fund sustainability and renewable energy investments is through green bonds. In the pharmaceutical industry Pfizer was the first company to float a $1.25, 10-year sustainability bond.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

European regulators have ratcheted up efforts to eliminate greenwashing from the investment sector. End of an era I – The fight against greenwashing inched ahead with the release of final guidelines for naming ESG- or sustainability-related funds by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Poland and France were the first governments to issue green bonds in 2016 and 2017 respectively. The market has been maturing rapidly since then, with the development of social and sustainable bond issuance and then sustainability-linked bonds (SLB) more recently.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2022

In 2020, the largest sub-category in the climate funds market was clean energy/tech, which slipped to third last year ahead of low carbon and green bond funds. . Morningstar said the shifts seen in 2021 reflected growing investor interest in opportunities beyond the renewable energy sector. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A recent report by Pictet Asset Management and the Institute of International Finance said “a fully-fledged sustainable debt market” would go a long way to filling the SDG financing gap, predicting sustainable bond issuance in emerging markets would grow from US$50 billion per year in 2020 to US$360 billion by 2023.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

Mining, for example, provides the raw materials needed to make components in green technology. This includes metals for the batteries in electric vehicles, the sales of which more than double between 2020 and 2021. Financial returns and green bonds .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

trillion between 2020-30 to implement Africa’s climate action commitments and nationally determined contributions (NDCs). billion between 2020–30. The Africa Development Bank estimates that the continent will require an average of US$1.4 Why is this financing gap so large and persistent?

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Chris Hall

MAY 25, 2022

The goal should be to ensure that asset managers have all the data needed to fulfil regulatory requirements by aligning with the taxonomy and to ensure that investors are investing in sustainable funds validated by regulators and avoiding greenwashing,” she said.

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

A person close to the Australian Treasury understands that the ‘Finance Agenda’ consultation is likely to include disclosures, taxonomy, transition planning and greenwashing, including financial product labelling. Parker from RIAA welcomes the potential for a product labelling system in Australia.

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