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ESG Bond Issuance to Quadruple by 2025

Chris Hall

trillion per year by 2025, according to new research by Pictet Asset Management and the Institute of International Finance (IIF). Achieving net zero by 2050 could require the climate bond universe to reach US$36 trillion by 2025 and over US$60 trillion by 2030, it added. The number of sustainability bond issues doubled versus 2020.

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UN Pact Bolsters Social Reporting Momentum

Chris Hall

The pact – which was adopted by the 193 members at its UN General Assembly – has the core objective to “turbocharge” actions and investments supporting the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on climate change, which have seen “halting progress and missed milestones”.

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Take Five: Twin Peaks

Chris Hall

Discussions on a New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on climate finance for the post-2025 period, which made little progress at COP28, should progress at next week’s Bonn Climate Conference, where the agenda will also include carbon credits , adaptation finance and the Global Stocktake, ahead of COP29.