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Ontario Power Generation includes nuclear energy in green bonds

Corporate Knights

Provincially owned Ontario Power Generation has adopted a green bond framework that includes nuclear power – a first for the electricity utility. . The move followed a controversial decision in the European Union to classify natural gas and nuclear investments as green. . But does that make them objectively green?

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AllianceBernstein Commits to Net Zero Pathway

3BL Media

degree Celsius pathway by 2050, in support of the Paris Agreement. AB engages with issuers systematically on climate-change risks and opportunities: in 2021, the firm held more than 900 discussions on climate risks, opportunities and other environmental issues.

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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'

GreenBiz

Mon, 02/01/2021 - 02:00. In mid-January, PepsiCo joined that club with a strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent across its entire value chain by 2030 and to reach the elusive net-zero emissions status 10 years before it’s called for by the Paris Agreement. It was a $1 billion green bond.

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Stopped in its Tracks

Chris Hall

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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Commodity AND Security

Chris Hall

Since then, the Paris Agreement and COP26 put forth new demands, resulting in more robust national climate action plans and the recognition that public and private sector initiatives across both developed and developing were required to achieve net zero. The rise of the voluntary carbon market.

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ESG Bond Issuance to Quadruple by 2025

Chris Hall

The research, titled ‘ Bonds That Build Back Better ’, predicted a “silent revolution” in the fixed income markets over the next 5-10 years as bond investors increasingly direct capital to the transition to a low carbon economy. ESG bond issuance reached US$1 trillion in 2021 for the first time according to Refinitiv.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: FTSE Russell Presents Net Zero Index Series in Japan

Chris Hall

The FTSE JPX Net Zero Japan 500 Index will give investors the ability to align their exposure with the 2015 Paris Agreement using the TOPIX 500 as a base universe,” he said. Green bond designations represent the majority of ESG municipal issuance, accounting for US$19 billion of par volume or 43.6%