ESG Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Issuance volumes of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds rebounded strongly in Q1 2023, resuming double-digit growth trends after falling 18% in 2022, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 29, 2024

While challenges for the still-developing SLB market persist, Moody’s notes that the quality of sustainability-linked bonds has been improving, and finds that new issuers continue to support the market, representing around two-thirds of issuers in 2023, compared to only around 31% of other GSSS bond types.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Separate from the US$100 billion per annum in climate finance pledged by rich countries, the Loss and Damage Fund was the surprise hit of COP27 , agreed with the aim of compensating the developing countries most at risk from the physical impacts of climate change already ‘locked in’. Let’s hope it’s not just more hot air.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Protected status for ESG investment products could mark the beginning of the end for greenwashing for UK investors. Before long, any asset manager thinking of slapping a ‘sustainable’ or ‘ESG’ label on its investment products for UK clients should think twice – at least. It thinks there is a problem about greenwashing.”.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Developed countries have belatedly reached a target for climate finance, only to be set a new one for nature. Developed nations mobilised US$115.9 billion of climate finance for developing countries in 2022, it was revealed this week, exceeding for the first time the US$100 billion annual level set in Copenhagen in 2009.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2023

In an oversubscribed market, greater opportunities for investors lie in social, sustainable, SLBs and blue bonds. SLBs have previously been accused of acting as a “platform for greenwashing”, with the proceeds not specifically having to be used for sustainable causes as is the case with green bonds.

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Sphera

MAY 13, 2022

And most importantly, are they focusing on the right aspects of packaging sustainability? Considerations for Sustainable Packaging Solutions. Driven by these developments, recyclability and the carbon footprint of packaging are drawing increasing attention.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Concerns over greenwashing have accelerated efforts by regulators and standard setters to develop and introduce more robust forms of disclosure and measurement to the burgeoning ESG investing market, he suggests. To date, Chile and Uruguay are the only sovereigns to have launched SLBs.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Sovereigns have been relatively late entrants to sustainable bond markets following corporates and supra-national entities (such as the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), which issued the first green debt securities in the mid-2000s. We expect continued growth and diversification in this sector.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2023

Advisory group urges the government to focus on “drafting efficiency” when developing criteria, while following the science. The UK’s Green Taxonomy must address challenges unearthed during the development of the EU taxonomy and streamline its do no significant harm (DNSH) criteria, according to the Green Technical Advisory Group (GTAG).

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Ashok Parameswaran, President of the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance, highlights the challenges of achieving environmental and social impact via emerging markets bonds. There’s a lot of greenwashing, and there are really weak standards in terms of additionality, materiality, accountability and transparency.”. Weak frameworks.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 20, 2022

Combined, the regulation is designed to help European asset owners understand, compare and measure the sustainability characteristics of investment funds, limiting their exposure to greenwashing. . “We This can include deployment of on-site renewable energy, building renovation, and the development of energy efficiency equipment.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Moody’s cited challenges including short-term post-pandemic support for businesses and households, long-term sustainable development challenges, including climate risk mitigation, and gradual, uneven recovery in revenue streams. Developing economies globally need to invest as much as US$4.5 trillion) to reach the goals.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

The legislation being introduced in Europe and the UK lends significantly more permanence to sustainable investing,” he said. The irony is that the US SEC, while a comparative laggard on regulation, is proving to be tougher on greenwashing through old-fashioned mis-selling rules,” said Mitchell. COP26 revisited.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

To take one UK-based example, when FTSE4Good was launched in 2001, a pioneering benchmark for socially responsible investing (SRI), the focus was on carbon emissions. A linked question is whether the large number of indices could provide cover for greenwashing by unscrupulous businesses or asset managers.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2024

Richard Hardyment, Head of Engagement at the Institute of Business Ethics, calls for a revolution in the mechanics of measurement to realise sustainable finance’s potential. There are accusations of greenwashing from one side, ‘wokeism’ from another, and a lingering question on everyone’s lips: is it making a difference?

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Once the details are known, corporates can ramp up their efforts to meet their new disclosure requirements and develop the underlying programmes and policies to support them. Curbing greenwashing. But the political context means there is likely to be a greater period of uncertainty and adjustment than normally follows a new rule.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 29, 2025

The latter, which just marked its tenth anniversary, is a set of voluntary frameworks that seek to promote the role of global debt capital markets in financing progress towards environmental and social sustainability.

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