GreenBiz

AUGUST 5, 2020

Promising green finance developments in the fashion industry already are underway. Traditional lenders have begun to ink green bonds and sustainability-linked loans. In February, VF Corporation closed its $591 million green bond, marking the first green bond issued in the industry. . Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

JULY 21, 2020

Consider that it has convinced more than 70 Apple suppliers to use renewable energy to produce products on its behalf , an effort funded in part by close to $5 billion in green bonds issued by the technology giant as well as a dedicated pool of money in China. . Sponsored Article. Information Technology. Corporate Strategy.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2025

Asset managers Head of Fixed Income hopes market expansion will eliminate need for the purely green bond-focused vehicle within the next decade. Niche to mainstream evolution Storebrand stated that the fund was the first commercial green bond fund, building on the first ever green bond issued by the World Bank in 2008.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 13, 2024

This new issue features reader favorites from the last decade, along with a few of our own all-time revered articles. Anderson of Interface; and John Howell of Climate & Capital Media on Green Bonds. From our media library, we’ve selected the most watched and listened to videos and podcasts. Find it all at- [link] ==

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GreenBiz

APRIL 16, 2021

Green Bonds. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. E-mail us at 350@greenbiz.com. Contributors. Joel Makower. GreenFin 21. Collective Insight. GreenBiz 350 Podcast.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Green bonds,” “social bonds” and “sustainability bonds” – these labels bring comfort to impact investors. Yet, are all green, social and sustainability bonds fully safe for the forthcoming 30 years? This article also looks at - 1) What Green, Social and Sustainable Bonds are Funding.

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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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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Corporate bond offerings focusing on sustainability and social issues are growing each quarter, and there’s a burgeoning market for loans linked to a company’s ESG performance or other sustainability metrics. As we reported recently , global green bond issuance shot past the $1 trillion mark in September. Sponsored Article.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. Green bonds are indeed often oversubscribed due to their success.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

The current green bonds used to offset GHG emissions can be expanded to identify a roadmap that supports individuals within a corporation’s community or supply chain. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Finance & Investing. GreenFin 21. Shutterstock.

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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. Read the original article here. Jean Bessala is a l ecturer in finance at the Salford Business School at the University of Salford.

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3BL Media

MARCH 30, 2022

Many investors are already familiar with green bonds, which have been on the market since 2007. Green bonds finance a specific project or projects with an environmentally beneficial purpose. Since then, companies have issued new types of bonds to finance a range of green, social and sustainable projects (Display).

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Switching to these systems can be costly, but, as Planet Tracker argues in its report, green bonds can be used to finance the transition. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Food & Agriculture. Food Systems. Aquaculture. Featured Column. Shutterstock.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The OECD report analysed how the climate alignment of finance globally is assessed, the current degree of alignment, and how financial sector and real economy policies and actions influence alignment with Article 2.1c trillion of bonds issued by the fossil fuel sector. trillion, compared with US$1.7

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We’ll focus, as my learning journey did, primarily on ESG investing and green bonds and loans. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Finance & Investing. Featured Column. Two Steps Forward. Shutterstock.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Labelled as Article 9 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the thematic investment strategy will invest in companies that benefit from the transition to a nature-positive world. The post This Week’s Fund News: Robeco Introduces Article 9 Biodiversity Strategy appeared first on ESG Investor.

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ESG Today

JULY 27, 2023

The Impact Corporate Bond Fund will invest globally in corporate high yield and investment grade green, social and sustainable bonds that have clearly defined social or environmental objectives and impact, with a focus on bonds that target a broad range of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hong Kong and Singapore are competing to be the financial hub of Asia for green finance, with trillions of dollars at stake. In a recent report, Bloomberg Green deep dives into Singapore’s slight edge with carbon trading, green bonds, and ESG asset management, while looking at Hong Kong’s strong presence in ESG assets and close ties to China.

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Chris Hall

MAY 20, 2022

Many European bond funds have focused on maintaining consistent risk/return profiles when adapting to Article 8 status under the Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), according to a new analysis from Morningstar, rather than targeting investment in bonds with strong green credentials.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

A little over a year ago we issued our first green bond. It was a $1 billion green bond. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Roughly $200 million of that was specifically to procure recycled PET in our North American beverage packaging.

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ESG Today

APRIL 2, 2023

Billion Green Bond Private Equity & Venture Capital JPMorgan Builds Out Sustainable Growth Private Equity Team ESG Data Startup Atlas Metrics Raises €5.2 Billion Green Bond Private Equity & Venture Capital JPMorgan Builds Out Sustainable Growth Private Equity Team ESG Data Startup Atlas Metrics Raises €5.2

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

This article is “sponsored content” as defined by Corporate Knights’ content disclosure policy. . 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 billion – one of Singapore’s largest green loans.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Following these pressures, ESMA noted that “the uptake of ESG investing and the growth of ESG markets levelled off in 2023, and that investor interest in products with sustainability features appears to have remained relatively flat in the first half of 2024, with Article 9 funds seeing net outflows of €9.4

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Gas projects were not widely backed by these bonds. And as debate continues about whether sustainable or green bond instruments offer any borrowing cost advantage over conventional debt, a recent study found that they can – by up to eight basis points in fact. A longer version of this article appears here.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 31, 2023

Climate Bonds Initiative’s (CBI) Market Intelligence report found green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked (SLB) and transition bonds (collectively known as GSS+) had fallen from over a record US$1 trillion in 2021 to US$863.4 Of that total, sustainability bonds contributed US$166.4 billion and US$3.5

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

6] Due to their unique nature, US municipal bonds are excluded from further analysis within this article, although it is important to point out that there are more than 17,200 of GSS bonds in the US municipal market alone, which greatly supersedes the number of issuances on all other markets combined. [7]

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Regulation is also a driving force in this, creating distinctions between fund types, such as EU Article 6, 8 and 9 funds for asset managers to grapple with. Up until now, many ESG analyses have focused primarily on environmental risks and impacts, particularly as issuance has predominately been skewed towards Green bonds.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

French asset manager Amundi has announced the launch of the Amundi Funds Euro Corporate Short Term Green Bond (AFECSTGB). The new actively-managed fund will invest in green bonds issued by corporates with proceeds committed to funding environmentally friendly and climate-focused projects.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

As we understand it, a sovereign cannot be considered sustainable and that hampers when creating Article 9 [a fund that has sustainable or a reduction in carbon emissions as its objective] classified products.”. This tool helped NN IP launch a sovereign green bond fund last April, classified as Article 9 under SFDR.

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ESG Today

JUNE 18, 2024

These technologies can sift through large volumes of unstructured data, such as annual reports, news articles and regulatory filings, to extract relevant information and convert it into structured formats. An example would be asking AI for the latest Green Bonds and a list of companies where the proceeds could be effectively used.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2022

The M&G (Lux) Diversity and Inclusion fund is categorised as Article 9 under SFDR and also targets six of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including reduced inequalities, decent work and economic growth, and peace, justice and strong institutions.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 31, 2022

It also means tapping into new sources of income — for example green bonds or incentives and payments for environmental services — so that farmers have science-based tools and the capital they need to invest in improving farm sustainability that supports people, profit and planet. Image credit: Evi T.

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

An ideological shift demanded that addressing the impact of climate change be a holistic global effort across both the public and private sectors as codified by Article 6 of the agreement. Last year, the value of global carbon markets hit US$851 billion as different stakeholders all flocked to the EU-ETS market, VCMs and VCCs.

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B the Change

APRIL 16, 2023

Get Started: How to Finance Your Sustainability Strategy describes how to access impact investing and green bonds. Check this free online report from B Lab that compiles articles and resources to help your business become a climate leader. This article was originally published by the Network for Business Sustainability.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

Investing in a broad range of liquid fixed income instruments, including inflation-linked government bonds, and securitised and corporate bonds across developed and emerging markets, the fund harnesses Brown Advisory’s framework for analysing sovereign bonds against ESG criteria.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Additional clarifications about the definition of a sustainable investment and about Article 8 and Article 9 classifications are expected soon, but in the meantime, caution and thorough due diligence remains key,” said Hortense Bioy, Global Director of Sustainable Research at Morningstar. What matters is transparency,” said Bioy.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 24, 2017

Having grown to enjoy working on the financial aspects of energy – especially business modelling and the aforementioned Monte Carlo method – I was pleased to see that what can be called Green Finance is booming these days. My research for the green bonds article have shown this.

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