ESG Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Government of Hong Kong announced today the completion of a green bond issuance, raising $5.75 billion in a triple-currency offering, with bonds denominated in US dollars, Euros and Renminbi (RMB). According to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the offering marks the largest ESG bond issuance in Asia to date.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Government of India’s first ever issuance of green bonds met strong demand, with orders exceeding the offering size by more than 4 times, earning the bonds a 5-6 basis point “greenium,” or a favorable yield spread relative to similar issues lacking green credentials, according to results released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Government of Canada announced that it will issue its second green bond this week, aimed at unlocking financing to accelerate green infrastructure and nature conservation projects, and supporting the achievement of the country’s climate goals.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Council of the European Union announced today the adoption of a regulation creating a new European Green Bond Standard, marking the last major step for the establishment of a new European Green Bonds (EuGB) label, aimed at fighting greenwashing and helping advance the sustainable finance market in the EU.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted 418-79 on Thursday to approve the adoption of a new European Green Bond (EuGB) label, aimed at fighting greenwashing and providing investors with confidence that their investments are being appropriately directed towards financing sustainable business activities and technologies.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 1, 2022

Automotive giant General Motors (GM) announced the launch of its first green bond offering, pricing $2.25 On an analyst conference call last week discussing the company’s Q2 2022 results, GM CFO Paul Jacobson said that the new framework “will unlock options to help us align our balance sheet with our ESG strategy.”.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2023

Linklaters forecasts record year for green bonds, while SLB issuance suffers Q2 slowdown. Investor demand for green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds (GSS+) has surged in H1 2023, with regulatory developments bringing greater transparency and confidence to the market.

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Impakter

MARCH 11, 2023

Impakter EU Green Bond Deal: Sustainable Gold Standard or Unrealistic? In what’s being labelled a “landmark’’ moment for sustainable finance, EU negotiators last week finally announced the agreement of a provisional deal establishing a gold standard for European green bonds (EuGB). appeared first on Impakter.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Information and communication technology company Ericsson announced today the completion of its inaugural green bond issuance, raising €500 million to investments in energy efficiency initiatives.

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Environmental Finance

AUGUST 17, 2022

Switzerland is planning to issue its first sovereign green bond later in 2022 after identifying CHF4.5 billion) in eligible green expenditures. billion ($4.7

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 30, 2024

In response, Kenya and other African pioneers are exploring alternative financing mechanisms such as green bonds and debt-for-nature swaps. trillion in community green bonds in 2022, according to the African Development Bank Group. Europe alone issued more than $100 billion in green bonds that year.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 20, 2023

Most sustainable investments: Iberdrola Called the “Exxon of green power” by The New York Times, Spanish electricity company Iberdrola led all other Global 100 companies in terms of sustainable investments in 2022. billion into green assets, such as renewable energy and EV charging, as well as energy storage and hydrogen production.

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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. was particularly slow in the quarter, falling to $9 billion from $17 billion in Q1 2022.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

City Developments Limited (CDL) has published its Integrated Sustainability Report (ISR) 2022, its fifteenth sustainability report since 2008. Leveraging Green Finance to Accelerate Low-Carbon Solutions. In April 2021, its South Beach Consortium joint venture (JV) secured a five-year green loan totalling S$1.22 196300316Z).

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The database simplifies sustainable investing with an intuitive, easy-to- use solution that allows investors to discover, compile and compare sustainable bonds as well as generate impact reports. In 2022, we launched functionalities that report on the EU taxonomy alignment of projects financed by issuers’ green and sustainable bonds.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The new goal was announced alongside the release of Verizon’s 2023 Green Bond Impact Report, which indicated that the company has fully allocated the $1 billion of proceeds from its most recent green bond issuance in March 2022. The 2022 green bond offering was the fourth from Verizon.

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3BL Media

JULY 28, 2023

Leadership Commitment: “With 2022 marking the 70th anniversary of NBK's founding, this year was a time of celebration and reflection on our progress, accomplishments, and strategic growth over the past 7 decades. Our 2022 Sustainability Report is organized based on the four pillars of NBK’s evolved ESG Strategy Framework.

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Environmental Finance

MARCH 9, 2023

A leading green bond index underperformed the global aggregate fixed income index by six percentage points in 2022.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2024

trillion in 2022. An interesting ongoing trend is the growth of green bonds. In 2022, green bond issues accounted for more than half of all sustainable bonds issued in the same year (58%, $487.1 over issuances in the same period of 2022, arriving at $351.9

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

City Developments Limited (CDL) has published its Integrated Sustainability Report (ISR) 2022, its fifteenth sustainability report since 2008. Leveraging Green Finance to Accelerate Low-Carbon Solutions. In April 2021, its South Beach Consortium joint venture (JV) secured a five-year green loan totalling S$1.22

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Environmental Finance

JULY 6, 2022

Greece plans to issue its debut green bond by the end of 2022, according to its debt head, after market volatility delayed its original plans.

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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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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

David Zahn , Head of Sustainable Fixed Income at Franklin Templeton , says new standards and innovations are expanding the supply of green bonds to meet increased investor demand. Investor demand for green, social, sustainability-linked and transition bonds (GSS+) continues to rise rapidly, outstripping supply.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Despite macroeconomic headwinds, GSS+ issuance maintains pace with overall bond market, reports Climate Bonds Initiative. The cumulative figure was described as “a huge milestone” in the latest quarterly update from Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), which administers the Climate Bonds Standard and Certification Scheme.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 13, 2022

Framework sets out how government will issue and manage sovereign green bond issuances. Singapore’s Ministry of Finance and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have published a new governance framework for sovereign green bonds, announcing plans to issue the first such bonds in the “coming months”.

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Environmental Finance

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

New Zealand has launched its sovereign green bond programme after publishing its green bond framework, with a debut bond expected by the end of 2022.

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ESG Today

JULY 29, 2022

Sustainable bond issuance outperformed the broader market in the second quarter of 2022, reaching a record 15% of global total issuance, according to a new report from Moody’s ESG Solutions. Moody’s maintained its forecast for stronger GSSS volumes in the second half of the year, and its $1 trillion full year estimate.

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Environmental Finance

MARCH 20, 2024

billion) from a green bond in a deal that was more than 12-times oversubscribed. The EU has raised €7 billion ($7.6

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 7, 2024

So how long will it be until crypto earns its green credentials? Green investments are assets like bonds that pay for projects with positive environmental and social outcomes. In fact, in 2022, the cryptocurrency Ethereum transitioned from POW to POS, reducing its energy consumption by nearly 100%.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Walmart announced the release of its first Green Bond Impact Report, indicating that the company has allocated $1.1 billion in green bond proceeds, with top investment areas including renewable energy, sustainable buildings, and waste reduction and circular economy initiatives.

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Environmental Finance

JANUARY 25, 2023

France is preparing to raise €11 billion ($12 billion) from sovereign green bonds in 2023, representing a €1 billion boost to the 2022 total from the major issuer

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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

billion) from green bonds in 2023, after the German development bank reached a $65 billion cumulative issuance total in 2022. KfW plans to raise a further €10 billion ($10.6

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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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ESG Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For its new report, “2022: Sizing the Impact Investing Market,” the GIIN screened and analyzed data from over 3,000 public and private market asset owners and managers. The report highlights some of the key drivers of the impact investing market’s momentum, including the rapid growth of the green bond market.

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Environmental Finance

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has predicted a "stellar" year for green bond issuance in 2023 after more than a decade of annual growth was halted in 2022,

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In addition to a AAA rating on MSCI’s ESG index, Lenovo was included on Bloomberg MSCI Green Bond Index in October 2022. MSCI is an index used by many financial decision-makers around the world. Read Lenovo’s most recent ESG Report for more information on the latest environment, social and governance initiatives.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Issuances of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds fell in the third quarter of 2022, but continued to remain more resilient than the broader bond market, growing to a record 16% share of the market in the quarter, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service.

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