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Ontario Power Generation includes nuclear energy in green bonds

Corporate Knights

Provincially owned Ontario Power Generation has adopted a green bond framework that includes nuclear power – a first for the electricity utility. . The move followed a controversial decision in the European Union to classify natural gas and nuclear investments as green. . But does that make them objectively green?

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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG Sustainable development bank Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) or Austrian Control Bank is a special-purpose financial institution owned by Austrias main banks. The company recently closed a green bond offering that will help it transition to predominantly renewable sources of power.

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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'

GreenBiz

In mid-January, PepsiCo joined that club with a strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent across its entire value chain by 2030 and to reach the elusive net-zero emissions status 10 years before it’s called for by the Paris Agreement. A little over a year ago we issued our first green bond.

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Commodity AND Security

Chris Hall

Since then, the Paris Agreement and COP26 put forth new demands, resulting in more robust national climate action plans and the recognition that public and private sector initiatives across both developed and developing were required to achieve net zero. The rise of the voluntary carbon market.

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Stopped in its Tracks

Chris Hall

Mandatory EU Green Bond Standard risks slowing issuance, but voluntary approach can still drive Taxonomy-aligned volumes. On the face of it, the market for green bonds is heading in the right direction, and fast.

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

For financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and investment managers, scope 3 emissions from supply chains and lending/investment portfolios are often more complex than for other industries. Finance climate action Financing climate action can take many forms, such as green bonds or sustainability-linked loans.

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ESG Bond Issuance to Quadruple by 2025

Chris Hall

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 The number of sustainability bond issues doubled versus 2020. Inconsistent information.