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. trillion in 2021. Non-financial corporate issuance in the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 3, 2025

The pullback threatens to erode years of progress, which has made Europe the leading market for sustainable funds , green bonds and other responsible investments, and jeopardizes the capital needed for the EUs ambitious climate goals. Here are the main rollbacks proposed in the initial package.

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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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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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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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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

The measures in sum: The package of measures is intended to improve trust and transparency in the market for sustainable investment products and minimize greenwashing. The proposed guidance is designed to help firms better understand the FCA’s expectations under the anti-greenwashing rule and other associated requirements.

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

In this paper, we describe our process for assessing ESG-labeled bonds and show that, by systematically applying this framework, investors can help set a gold standard for the market, avoid surprises from controversy and greenwashing, and potentially generate more alpha over time. Bigger, Broader, Better: The Rise of ESG-Labeled Bonds.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 29, 2024

By region, Moody’s anticipates that Europe will maintain the largest share of GSSS volumes, after accounting for 45% of issuance in 2023, with sustainable bonds representing 20% of total bond issuances, and growing to $428 billion in 2023 from $411 in 2022, as sustainability issues remain top of mind for issuers.

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ESG Today

JULY 31, 2023

For the second quarter, GSSS bond issuance volumes of $258 billion were flat over the same period last year, recovering from a sharp decline in the second half of 2022, and significantly outperforming the broader market, with GSSS bonds rising to 15% share of global bond market issuance.

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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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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Moody’s forecasts the GSSS bond market to grow 10% in 2023 to issuance of $950 billion, after declining 18% in 2022 to $862 billion, from a record $1.05 trillion in 2021. Despite the 2022 decline, the sustainable bond market substantially outperformed the global bond market, which saw issuance volume fall by 27%.

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

Mandatory EU Green Bond Standard risks slowing issuance, but voluntary approach can still drive Taxonomy-aligned volumes. On the face of it, the market for green bonds is heading in the right direction, and fast. Moving the goalposts.

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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. The market peaked in 2021, largely driven by Enel’s €3.25 billion SLB , issued in June that year. Italian issuers supplied €5.1

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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

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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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Though the number of ESG shareholder proposals is accelerating (up 65 percent this year as compared to the average of 2019 -2021), the passage rate of such proposals is declining precipitously. Issuance of green bonds has more than tripled from 2017 to 2021.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

It forecasted that 19 countries in the region would suffer worsening public finances over 2021-23, versus the period prior to the outbreak of the pandemic. The issuer base is likely to expand through multilateral support and as investor appetite for sustainable bonds catches up with vanilla bonds,” Moody’s added.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 8, 2024

No country in the region has made reporting against the frameworks mandatory, further increasing greenwashing risk and due diligence costs. A comprehensive taxonomy can mitigate the risk of greenwashing by enforcing stringent requirements and maintaining transparency.”

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 8, 2024

No country in the region has made reporting against the frameworks mandatory, further increasing greenwashing risk and due diligence costs. A comprehensive taxonomy can mitigate the risk of greenwashing by enforcing stringent requirements and maintaining transparency.”

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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

JUNE 7, 2024

Down, not out – Support for climate-related resolutions at the AGMs of US firms has been closely watched this proxy season for further signs of a “stewardship depression” witnessed since 2021. Golden green – Australia took another step along its belated path to net zero under the Albanese government with the issuance of A$7 billion (US$4.7

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Chris Hall

MAY 25, 2022

Last year, sustainable bond funds saw €102 billion in net inflows in Europe, exceeding non-ESG bond funds, which attracted €69 billion, for the first time. With net assets of €621 billion at the end of 2021, sustainable bonds account for around 20% of all UCITS bond fund assets.

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Jon Hale

DECEMBER 22, 2021

End of Week Notes And 4 ways that it’s having a positive impact on the world Sustainable investing had another successful year of growth, performance, and influence in 2021. Some fixed-income funds may purchase green bonds issued by fossil fuel companies to help them finance renewable energy projects. investors.

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Jon Hale

JANUARY 7, 2022

As a result, much of the criticism stems from a mismatch between what a critic thinks sustainable investing is or should be about and how it is actually being practiced, often leading to claims of “greenwashing.” Sustainable Business Went Mainstream in 2021 This is due, in no small part, to the explosion of ESG into the mainstream.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

To support emerging market climate transitions, developed countries and private investors are drawing up an ambitious blueprint, but is it working?

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GreenBiz

APRIL 12, 2021

Mon, 04/12/2021 - 02:11. So, there’s also increased attention — by activists and regulators, as well as investors — to corporate greenwash, in which a company’s actions doesn’t match its proclamations. 5 themes for a capital week. Joel Makower. Eastern / 8:30 a.m. The revolution in social finance. The “S” in ESG is also rising.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

trillion in 2021. Currently, there is no clear definition of what constitutes a “green” investment, which has led to a proliferation of green bonds that are not truly environmentally friendly.” ChinaSIF estimates that the size of China’s ESG market in 2022 was RMB 24.6 trillion (US$3.57 trillion) growing from RMB 18.4

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

This week, green and blue debt were in focus around the world, while the US courted further climate controversy. New peaks – Green bonds and other sustainability-related instruments demonstrated their resilience this week. A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

Thankfully the finance industry didn’t do that.” ASFI started back in 2021 on a sustainability roadmap for Australia, including a taxonomy and other sustainable-related policy initiatives. “It was a really smart move,” says Reynolds. Australia is forecast to earn US$302 billion from resource and energy exports, reports Energy Monitor.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

companies rose sharply between 2021 and 2024, although overall support was 27% in 2024, down from 37% in 2021. But these dropped precipitously starting in 2022, when central banks ramped up interest rates, the Ukraine war drove up energy prices, and Europe established more stringent anti-greenwash fund-disclosure rules.

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