Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2024

This turnabout has been most pronounced in the green bond market, where power utilities have, controversially, been adding nuclear energy as an option for green bonds. 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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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

A 2020 report co-authored by Amundi and the IFC pointed out that investment flows since the start of the COVID-19 crisis have proven more resilient towards green investments when compared to their traditional counterparts. What is the potential of green bonds to address this imbalance?

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ESG Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

While 2024 issuance remained flat year-over-year at $1 trillion, however, sustainable bond volumes underperformed strong growth in the overall bond market in the year, with share of global issuance declining to 11% from 15% in the prior year.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2025

Taxonomy-aligned capital expenditures (capex) from large listed European companies grew 34% in 2023, reaching 250 billion (US$271 billion) by year end, according to a new report from the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF). Outstanding green loans stood at 908 billion in 2023 while green bond volumes reached 781 billion.

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ESG Today

MAY 2, 2024

Issuance volumes of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds rebounded sharply in Q1 2024 over the prior quarter, rising 36% to $281 billion, up from $207 billion in Q4 2023, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The regulator said that while the growth in investor interest in sustainable investments over the past several years “boded favourably for the EU’s ambition,” recent developments have raised concerns about the continued mobilization of private capital to finance the transition, particularly noting political pressure in the U.S.,

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2022

Issuance volume rose 45% over 2020, with sustainable bonds accounting for 10% of overall debt capital market activity. Green bonds accounted for around half of all issuance (US$488.8 Social bond issues totalled US192.9 Q4 2021 was the fourth consecutive quarter to surpass US$200 billion and over 400 issues.

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