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Renewable Energy World
JUNE 29, 2021
A 2020 report co-authored by Amundi and the IFC pointed out that investment flows since the start of the COVID-19 crisis have proven more resilient towards green investments when compared to their traditional counterparts. What is the potential of green bonds to address this imbalance?
Chris Hall
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Out of its class A secured debt of £15 billion, about £3 billion is labelled green, potentially making the company a green bond default case. Green bonds are structurally no different to conventional bonds under the same class (with the same ranking, covenants and security package among all creditors in the case of distress).
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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.
ESG Today
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
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.
Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
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.
Chris Hall
JANUARY 25, 2022
Issuance volume rose 45% over 2020, with sustainable bonds accounting for 10% of overall debt capital market activity. Green bonds accounted for around half of all issuance (US$488.8 Social bond issues totalled US192.9 Q4 2021 was the fourth consecutive quarter to surpass US$200 billion and over 400 issues.
Chris Hall
MAY 17, 2024
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.
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