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How Green Bonds Will Fund a Green Future

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ESG-labeled bond issuance surged to new heights in 2021. But issuance of social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds—which reference specific key performance indicators, or KPIs—grew fastest (Display). But in 2021, high-yield issuance across US dollar and euro markets quadrupled.

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The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition

Corporate Knights

For example, 79% of Global 100 firms had sustainability-linked pay; only 30% of the broader corporate universe linked executive pay to the achievement of environmental or social sustainability targets. It is a similar story for gender and racial diversity, though the difference is less stark. CLIMATE COMMITMENTS 1.5˚C

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India to Launch Inaugural $2 Billion Green Bond Offering this Month

ESG Today

India’s entry into the green bond market follows the government’s introduction in recent years of a series of climate-related goals, including a pledge made at the 2021 COP26 climate conference to reach net zero by 2070. The Excluded Project category also includes nuclear power generation and hydropower plants larger than 25 MW.

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Sustainable Bond Market Rebounds, Resuming Double Digit Growth: Moody’s

ESG Today

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.

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Corporate Decarbonization, Supportive Policy to Drive 2023 Rebound in Sustainable Bond Market: Moody’s

ESG Today

trillion in 2021. Despite the 2022 decline, the sustainable bond market substantially outperformed the global bond market, which saw issuance volume fall by 27%. 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

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Mondel?z 2022 Snacking Made Right Report: More Sustainable Snacking

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25% CO2e emissions reductions across our manufacturing 39% In 2022, 39% of the electricity used in our manufacturing sites was renewable, compared to 32% in 2021. Indeed, our ingredient sourcing programs are where most of the work of our carbon emissions reductions and social sustainability efforts live.

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The Consumer Goods Forum Successfully Holds 4th CGF China Day in Shanghai

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Jeffrey LU, CEO of Mengniu Group, said that carbon neutrality is a great challenge to China’s dairy industry and requires the full collaboration of the whole industry chain to create a “net-zero carbon era”. Only by respecting nature and pursuing a harmonious co-existence with nature can we achieve sustainable prosperity.”