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ESG Bond Issuance to Quadruple by 2025

Chris Hall

ESG bond issuance reached US$1 trillion in 2021 for the first time according to Refinitiv. A key factor in meeting demand for climate-positive investment could be the growth of climate-aligned bonds. Green bonds accounted for around half of all issuance (US$488.8 Social bond issues totalled US192.9

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Singapore Finalises Sustainable Finance Taxonomy

Chris Hall

Global interoperability To enhance interoperability with global taxonomies, MAS has commenced an exercise to map the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy to the IPSF’s (International Platform for Sustainable Finance) Common Ground Taxonomy (CGT), which currently covers the EU Taxonomy and China’s Green Bond Endorsed Project Catalogue.

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Take Five: From America to the World

Chris Hall

In other US climate-positive news, the Biden administration recently awarded US$4.3 In related news, NatWest Group issued this week the first bond by a UK bank dedicated to financing and re-financing electric vehicles (EV), raising net proceeds of €750 million (US$811.4