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The nuclear option

Corporate Knights

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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PSF Spotlights 34% Green Capex Growth

Chris Hall

Outstanding green loans stood at 908 billion in 2023 while green bond volumes reached 781 billion. Total outstanding green debt finance at the end of 2023 was 1.7

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The crypto industry was supposed to decarbonize by 2025 - how’s that going?

Corporate Knights

Cryptocurrencies have been condemned over their environmental record at a time when traditional investments have been rapidly moving towards greener environmental, social and governance (ESG) values. So how long will it be until crypto earns its green credentials? RELATED: Ethereum goes green overnight.

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Comcast Issues its First $1 Billion Green Bond

ESG Today

Global media and communications company announced today its first green bond offering, raising $1 billion, with proceeds from the 10-year bond aimed at supporting the company’s environmental sustainability goals, including its target to be carbon neutral by 2035. Ramirez & Company, Inc.,

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A New Frontier for Green Investment

Chris Hall

Green finance – typically global bond, loans, and other long-term markets – has reached almost US$2 trillion in volume. Annual green bond issuance broke through the half trillion mark for the first time, ending 2021 at US$522.7 billion, a 75% increase on prior year volumes, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative.

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ESG Bond Issuance to Quadruple by 2025

Chris Hall

The research, titled ‘ Bonds That Build Back Better ’, predicted a “silent revolution” in the fixed income markets over the next 5-10 years as bond investors increasingly direct capital to the transition to a low carbon economy. ESG bond issuance reached US$1 trillion in 2021 for the first time according to Refinitiv.

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Take Five: Green Means Green

Chris Hall

It had previously been possible to launch an EU environmental opportunities fund, claiming Article 8 classification under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) , while allocating as little as 10% of assets to demonstrably green investments.