Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2022

In 2020, the largest sub-category in the climate funds market was clean energy/tech, which slipped to third last year ahead of low carbon and green bond funds. . Overall the climate funds market doubled from just over US$200 billion to US$408 billion globally in 2021, consisting 860 funds. Carbon intensity .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2022

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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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

National-scale action plans The GSIA report provided evidence of a “policy vacuum” preventing private sector investment, which the alliance characterised as a lack of positive policies and transition planning guidance to encourage climate-positive investments.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2024

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

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