ESG Today

JULY 18, 2022

Netherlands-based asset manager NN Investment Partners (NN IP) announced today the launch of the NN (L) Social Bond fund, expanding the firm’s impact bond offerings with a fund focused on investments in social and sustainability bonds that allocate proceeds to social projects with clear social benefits to specific target populations.

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3BL Media

JUNE 22, 2022

Builds on company’s leadership in green building, solar and more. Publishes 2021-22 ESG Report. In its 2021-22 ESG report, the company outlines its progress toward its environmental, social and governance goals. SOURCE: Prologis. DESCRIPTION: Sets interim targets of 1 GW solar by 2025 and net zero for operations by 2030.

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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. Our Sustainable-Investing Framework describes six distinct approaches to investing with sustainability in mind.

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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. Nearly US$800 billion ESG-labeled bond issuance in 2021.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 11, 2021

As part of its commitment to the 2030 Agenda, Uruguay has already submitted four voluntary national reviews to the UN High Level Political Forum: in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. Uruguay has already started to move in this direction, initiating the country’s first private issuance of green bonds to finance sustainable investment portfolios.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

Edith Siermann, Head of Fixed Income and Responsible Investing at NN IP, says bondholders have equal responsibility for driving sustainability alongside shareholders. Asset flows into sustainable fixed income funds increased by 2.4 times in 2021 to reach US$135 billion. Positive momentum.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. Issuance of green bonds has more than tripled from 2017 to 2021.

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Jon Hale

JANUARY 7, 2022

End of Week Notes How Bloomberg Businessweek’s takedown of MSCI’s ESG Ratings got it wrong Sustainable investing has attracted its share of criticism lately. Further complicating matters, sustainable investing has not sprung forth as a unified, fully developed investment approach. To the contrary, this idea?—?that

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including Franklin Templeton, Ninety One, Robeco, Mirova, Adam Street Partners, ThomasLloyd and NGFS. We are confident that Anne’s expertise will take our efforts on sustainable investing to the next level.”

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 7, 2022

So far, they have thrown their support behind the burgeoning green bond market, where transparency and targets offer reassurance of positive impact, engaging less frequently with existing holdings. According to RLAM’s 2021 stewardship report , 12.5% of its engagements targeted fixed income, compared to 68.3% equity, and 19.3%

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In addition, the OMXS30ESG is also designed to be used for structured products, such as warrants, index bonds options, exchange traded funds and other non-standardized derivatives products. In November 2021, Nasdaq expanded its ESG derivative offering with the listing of options based on the OMXS30ESG Index.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Corporate issuance of sustainable bonds has pulled back sharply over the past several quarters, falling to $53 billion in Q3 from its peak of $115 billion in Q2 of 2021. Moody’s reduced its forecast for full year green bond issuance to around $500 billion from $550 billion.

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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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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

How escalating demands in the labelled bond space are changing practices for investors and what you need to do to keep pace. By Sustainable Fitch. Investor thirst for sustainable investments across all asset classes has seen fixed income issuance creation and supply skyrocket year-over-year to meet the demand.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

Consistent data on sovereign climate risks is crucial, says Victoria Barron, ASCOR Chair and Head of Sustainable Investment, BT Pension Scheme. Green bonds provided most of the additional US$97.8 In Q4 2021 , EU Member State and UK bonds and bills issuance was €624 billion. billion in sustainable bonds.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including FTSE Russell, BondLink, Moody’s, Intercontinental Exchange and more. . Green bond designations represent the majority of ESG municipal issuance, accounting for US$19 billion of par volume or 43.6%

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

UK-based insurer Aviva first published its climate transition plan in 2021, which targets a 25% reduction in the carbon intensity of its investments, £6 billion (US$7.4 billion) in green assets, and £2.5 billion in low-carbon and renewable energy infrastructure by 2025.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

FCA confirms sustainability disclosure and labeling regime The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a policy statement setting out its final rules and guidance on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels. Next steps: The first issue of green bonds is expected to occur in mid-2024.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2023

Investment activity in agrifood systems, vital for future food security, is lower today than in 2015 when the SDGs were adopted, according to UNCTAD. In fact, the number of projects in agrifood systems backed by international investment fell by 19% between 2015 and 2022, only growing modestly by 6% between 2021 and 2022.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

The World Economic Forum noted that India’s net zero transition will unlock US$1 trillion in sustainable investment opportunities by 2030 and as much as US$15 trillion by 2070, creating over 50 million jobs. . Further, power producer ACME Solar raised US$334 million for its 12 solar projects through offshore green bonds. .

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2024

In a survey of 200 European and North American fund managers with social and environmental exclusions, 37% of funds reported having a nuclear energy screen in 2022, down from 43% in 2021. With this in mind, nuclear green bonds promise to help fund decades of net-zero energy for the public and years of clean financial returns for investors.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Although China – through the Green Bond Endorsed Projects Catalogue – Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand all exclude gas financing, most Asian taxonomies are more permissive in that regard. However, most other taxonomies in the region recognise that sustainable investments must meet climate goals and facilitate economic transformation.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Although China – through the Green Bond Endorsed Projects Catalogue – Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand all exclude gas financing, most Asian taxonomies are more permissive in that regard. However, most other taxonomies in the region recognise that sustainable investments must meet climate goals and facilitate economic transformation.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This is a clear indication to private finance, but its sub-clauses go further by making specific reference to blended finance, impact funds, green bonds and biodiversity credits, combining with climate finance initiatives where appropriate. Further, the European Commission pledged €7 billion for biodiversity over the course of 2021-27.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness, responsible for financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union, told this October’s EU Sustainable Investment Summit taxonomies are critical to “identify environmentally sustainable investments and to increase transparency on sustainability”.

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

Sustainable bond issuance in Asia ex-Japan rose to a record US$85 billion in 2021, according to Refinitiv data, and the market is expected to almost double in 2022, and quadruple by 2025. . Conditions are also “ripe”, as a Moody’s report asserts, for the increased issuance of sovereign sustainable bonds in the region. .

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Sphera

JANUARY 10, 2022

Here is a taste of some of the upcoming ESG regulations and standards around sustainable finance we’ll see in 2022. Companies are facing several sustainability-related challenges, including: Managing more diversified ESG data. Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation SFDR (Effective Jan.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

NextGenerationEU was launched by the Commission in 2021 as an €800 billion recovery program, established in response to the COVID-19 crisis, aimed at supporting the economic recovery through investments geared towards making the EU “greener, more digital and more resilient.” million tons, ahead of the 44.2 million tons.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Investment focuses The MSLF2 is modelled on Mirovas Land Degradation Neutrality Fund (LDN) ,which closed at US$208 million in June 2021, four years after its original launch. Last May, blended finance network Convergences latest latest report found that global blended finance had hit US$15 billion.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

These regulatory moves are necessary for China to compete on the international stage on ESG, according to Dr Guo Peiyuan, Chairman of SynTao Green Finance, the founding organisation of China Sustainable Investment Forum (ChinaSIF). trillion in 2021. trillion (US$3.57 trillion) growing from RMB 18.4

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Most are equity funds, but they also include 125 green bond funds, which are expected to attract growing interest. Europe, by far the largest sustainable fund market with 84% of total global assets, saw net inflows of US$15.3 and many Republican lawmakers are publicly attacking ESG investing. Recently, BlackRock Inc.

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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. The act also kickstarted an era of green investment competition.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 5, 2024

As a result of increased coal use and investment, China could miss several climate targets it has set for 2025 unless drastic action is taken soon, the CREA has warned. Back in 2021, the country committed to strictly limiting coal consumption growth and new coal power generation.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

And expect the Trump administration to reverse a Biden Department of Labor rule expressly permitting pension trustees to consider ESG issues in investment decisions. But on climate disclosure and fiduciary rights, this will create regulatory confusion more than a firm barrier to sustainable investing. In 2024, large U.S.

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