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. Global focus on sustainable development and investment will support the market.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Financial products and funds labelled as ‘sustainable,’ green,’ or ‘ESG’ on Swiss financial markets will be required to align or contribute to specific sustainability goals, with providers required to disclose how they intend to achieve the goals, according to new proposed rules unveiled by the Swiss Federal Council.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2024

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 After demonstrating resilience in a turbulent economic environment, green bond issuances in the first half of 2023 increased by 22.2%

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Corporate Knights

JULY 31, 2023

They in fact have no common yardstick to measure “sustainable” and are instead responding to general environmental and social concerns in the market with a range of instruments such as green bonds and sustainability-linked loans that pay a bit of lip service to these issues while making money for the banks.

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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. trillion in 2021. Non-financial corporate issuance in the U.S.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

By assessing the positive and negative impacts of total volumes of financial flows and stocks on climate mitigation goals, the report found a low degree of climate-alignment across asset classes Within an outstanding corporate bonds universe of US$34 trillion in 2023, green bonds made up US$1.6

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ESG Today

AUGUST 1, 2024

Despite the decline, however, Moody’s notes that the sustainable bond market remains on track to reach $950 billion in issuance this year, an increase over 2023 volumes, and could reach as high as $1 trillion. Green bonds continued to account for the majority of sustainable bond issuance at $146 billion for the quarter.

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3BL Media

APRIL 30, 2025

Grains Council (USCG) introduced the Corn Sustainability Assurance Protocol (CSAP) in 2023. trillion in green, social, and sustainability-linked bonds and other mechanisms are being raised annually around the world. To provide traceability of U.S. corn sustainability across international supply chains, the U.S.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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 GSSS bonds claimed a record 13% share of global bond issuance in the year, and Moody’s expects continued outperformance, with a forecast 15% share in 2023.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

Originally published on bloomberg.com Green finance regulatory developments The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) galvanized the energy around the global green finance agenda, setting the stage for a busy 2024 of green-related rulemaking and policy guidance for the financial services sector.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 29, 2024

By region, Moody’s anticipates that Europe will maintain the largest share of GSSS volumes, after accounting for 45% of issuance in 2023, with sustainable bonds representing 20% of total bond issuances, and growing to $428 billion in 2023 from $411 in 2022, as sustainability issues remain top of mind for issuers.

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ESG Today

JULY 31, 2023

For the second quarter, GSSS bond issuance volumes of $258 billion were flat over the same period last year, recovering from a sharp decline in the second half of 2022, and significantly outperforming the broader market, with GSSS bonds rising to 15% share of global bond market issuance.

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3BL Media

JULY 11, 2023

Target-Based: ESG Bond Goals Have Expanded ESG-labeled bonds have come a long way quickly, and innovation shows no signs of slowing. UOPs, which are project-based, include green bonds and social bonds that firms issue to finance their environmental or social programs. Not every challenging situation gets a pass.

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Chris Hall

MAY 16, 2024

Similarly to green bonds, SLBs have also been criticised for acting as a potential ‘ platform for greenwashing ‘ , with their proceeds sometimes not being used for sustainable causes. Navigating challenges As of November 2023, the global SLB market represented US$279 billion , totalling 768 bonds from 469 issuers.

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

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.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

in 2023 to 4.9% The number of exchanges offering green bonds has increased from eight in 2016 to 34 in 2023, with a number listing a range of labelled bonds including social, sustainability-linked , green sukuk and gender-linked bonds. This contrasts with a gap of 9.7% this year – just 45.6%

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We Mean Business Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

The EU Green Taxonomy was designed to accelerate the flow of money into green companies and projects, while simultaneously protecting investors from greenwashing accusations. The EU Green Taxonomy is also instrumental for the upcoming EU Green Bonds Standard.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A recent report by Pictet Asset Management and the Institute of International Finance said “a fully-fledged sustainable debt market” would go a long way to filling the SDG financing gap, predicting sustainable bond issuance in emerging markets would grow from US$50 billion per year in 2020 to US$360 billion by 2023.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2024

of votes in 2023, after a failed bid to exclude it) and 11.5% Golden green – Australia took another step along its belated path to net zero under the Albanese government with the issuance of A$7 billion (US$4.7 billion) in green sovereign debt. At the retail group’s AGM on Wednesday , 19.1% last year , while 15.4%

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Sustainability Update

APRIL 15, 2025

Grains Council (USCG) introduced the Corn Sustainability Assurance Protocol (CSAP) in 2023. trillion in green, social, and sustainability-linked bonds and other mechanisms are being raised annually around the world. To provide traceability of U.S. corn sustainability across international supply chains, the U.S.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2023

SLBs have been accused linked to greenwashing by companies in the past, with the proceeds of the bonds not specifically used for sustainable causes.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Stodulka notes the investment plan has been “explicit about disaggregating the types of funding and investment needed”, which is “critical to private investors looking to deploy capital at a large scale”.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Although the EU Taxonomy and SFDR were designed to increase transparency and reduce opportunities for greenwashing, it’s still early days, and there is much work to do. In parallel, additional expectations are being introduced, in accordance with the original legislation, from January 2023.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

Currently, there is no clear definition of what constitutes a “green” investment, which has led to a proliferation of green bonds that are not truly environmentally friendly.” It is going to establish an office in Beijing in mid 2023,” says Peiyuan. trillion (US$3.57 trillion) growing from RMB 18.4 trillion in 2021.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 12, 2021

So, there’s also increased attention — by activists and regulators, as well as investors — to corporate greenwash, in which a company’s actions doesn’t match its proclamations. The revolution in social finance. The “S” in ESG is also rising. That would likely accelerate the standardization of reporting, moving everyone forward.

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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.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 29, 2025

Italian utility company A2A announced that it has raised 500 million (USD$521 million) in a new green bond offering, with the issuance marking the first by a European corporate issuer to use the EUs new European Green Bond (EuGB) label. A2A reported strong demand for the new green bond, with the offering nearly 4.4x

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

New Zealand’s Minister for Climate Change James Shaw tells ESG Investor that Australia and New Zealand have a uniquely close relationship. “2023 is the 40 th anniversary of Closer Economic Relations,” Shaw says. “By Last month, the two countries signed an agreement to tackle climate change collaboratively alongside other Pacific countries.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

US SIF reported that sustainable assets under management at the end of 2023 were US$6.5 But these dropped precipitously starting in 2022, when central banks ramped up interest rates, the Ukraine war drove up energy prices, and Europe established more stringent anti-greenwash fund-disclosure rules.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 29, 2025

After years of debate, the European Union Green Bond Standard (EUGBS) finally made its formal debut at the end of last year. However, all of the projects must comply with the taxonomys do no significant harm (DNSH) criteria, as well as be certified by a designated EU green bond reviewer.

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