ESG Today

JULY 25, 2024

The document also includes recommendations aimed at establishing the EU Taxonomy as the sole reference point to be used to assess and measure sustainability performance, noting that the SFDR – which predates the Taxonomy – provides its own, more flexible, definition of sustainable investments.

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3BL Media

MAY 16, 2022

This year’s report documents important milestones marking 10 years on our sustainability journey, in which we’ve achieved scale in our signature ingredient sourcing programs Cocoa Life and Harmony Wheat. Snacking Mindfully. 18% of packs feature Snack Mindfully portion icons (+4 percentage points since 2020).

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

According to BondLink, the new resource “significantly improves” the ability of municipal issuers to highlight how they’re addressing current ESG credit risks and showcase their green bond programs to investors in the US$4 trillion municipal bond market. of ESG issuance for 2021, according to the IHS Markit.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 28, 2022

The ICMA has also published an accompanying SLB Q&A document providing further clarifications, such as outlining what could be considered a credible materiality assessment of SLB KPIs. . A suggested core KPI for auto manufacturers of auto parts is ensuring a percentage of produced or sold vehicle components are zero emissions.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In the shorter term, there is also concern that ESMA’s incoming rules will create similar inconsistencies with other sustainable finance regulations, such as the EU Green Bond Standard. The post EU Names Rules a Stop-gap Solution to Greenwashing appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EMIA’s labelled bond standards cover both corporate and sovereign issuers in the emerging markets, and are designed to help investors identify which bonds make a “meaningful contribution” to ESG outcomes. EMIA lists recipients of the gold standard on its site. Recourse for misuse of funds.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2022

By 2035, China’s climate change monitoring and early warning capability will reach an advanced level globally, while the climate risk management and prevention system will basically mature, the document says. It also emphasises regional collaboration and support from the financial and technological sectors.

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

But on top of this have even more countries gone in the direction of establishing Taxonomies, which supports both identification of green companies, but even more importantly also can raise capital to green sub-projects within companies via green bonds. Companies cannot have perfect oversight of all the scope 3 data.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

But it is possible to assess the taxonomy alignment of certain instruments such as green bonds, due to issuer requirements, and this is reflected in the number of fixed-income Article 9 funds with relatively high alignment levels. Very few funds are reporting exposure to taxonomy alignment higher than 0”, said Bioy.

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Chris Hall

MAY 25, 2022

For the report, EFAMA conducted an analysis of Morningstar Direct’s database, containing funds available to both retail and institutional investors, and relied on Morningstar’s definition of sustainable bond funds as those which explicitly indicate use of sustainability, impact, or ESG strategy in their prospectus or offering documents.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Arguments throughout the two weeks of COP15, largely over financing, were largely allayed at the end, but the GBF too often lacked numerical targets and time-bound commitments for a document aimed at reversing decades of over-exploitation by the end of the decade. These are signals about what needs to happen on the ground. Finance showed up”.

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3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2025

Data was gathered from publicly available documents, company websites, and databases like S&P Capital IQ and LSEG Data & Analytics. Among the financial instruments most used by the companies, green bonds (53%) lead, followed by sustainability-linked bonds (30%) and loans (25%). Key findings 1.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2024

Second-quarter issuance represented US$238 billion, down 20% year-on-year, while global issuance of green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds totalled US$238 billion – also down 20%. The EV Green Bond originated from the group’s asset finance arm – Lombard.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

There are potential opportunities both for equity and fixed income investors, the latter including green bonds issuance. As we have previously explained ,the oceans role as a major carbon sink, absorbing up to 30% of human-induced carbon dioxide emissions is well documented ,alongside its role as a biodiversity reservoir.

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