Environmental Finance

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has identified the EU Green Bonds and ESG Ratings regulations, as well as preparatory work for a database including sustainability-related information, among its priorities for 2025.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Council of the European Union announced today the adoption of a regulation creating a new European Green Bond Standard, marking the last major step for the establishment of a new European Green Bonds (EuGB) label, aimed at fighting greenwashing and helping advance the sustainable finance market in the EU.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted 418-79 on Thursday to approve the adoption of a new European Green Bond (EuGB) label, aimed at fighting greenwashing and providing investors with confidence that their investments are being appropriately directed towards financing sustainable business activities and technologies.

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 17, 2023

Greenwashing is rife among green bond issues, an influential EU politician has told Environmental Finance's ESG in Fixed Income conference in London.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 29, 2021

The post The Brief: Stakeholder capitalism in emerging markets, inclusive climate transition, barbershop tech, virtual learning, green bonds or greenwashing? Social entrepreneurs in Asia, Africa and. appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Environmental Finance

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The EU's Green Bond Regulation will create an extra burden for issuers, but issues that comply will prove more attractive to investors, write Massimiliano Danusso and Francesca Marchetti

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Environmental Finance

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Greenwashing is 'not uncommon' amongst corporate green bond issuers, a report by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has found.

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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.

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Environmental Finance

JANUARY 13, 2023

The Hong Kong Airport Authority (HKAA) has raised $1 billion from a green bond tranche which forms part of its broader funding of the runway expansion project, a year after its previous controversial deal.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Financial products and funds labelled as ‘sustainable,’ green,’ or ‘ESG’ on Swiss financial markets will be required to align or contribute to specific sustainability goals, with providers required to disclose how they intend to achieve the goals, according to new proposed rules unveiled by the Swiss Federal Council.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 29, 2021

The post As seafood industry adopts green bonds, a report charges greenwashing appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, July 29 – Mowi ASA, the Norwegian fish farming giant, raised €200 million from investors last year in what was the seafood industry’s.

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 12, 2023

Using sustainability-linked targets in green bonds could provide the "missing" element to promote more discipline and tackle greenwashing, according to Atlanticomnium.

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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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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2024

An interesting ongoing trend is the growth of green bonds. In 2022, green bond issues accounted for more than half of all sustainable bonds issued in the same year (58%, $487.1 After demonstrating resilience in a turbulent economic environment, green bond issuances in the first half of 2023 increased by 22.2%

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ESG Today

JUNE 29, 2023

Corporate interest in sustainability-linked loans has grown rapidly over the past several years, as the financing provides flexibility to use proceeds for general corporate purposes, while with instruments such as green bonds, raised funds can only be allocated to specific categories of green projects.

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Financial Times: Moral Money

APRIL 16, 2023

European Union aims to define what counts as sustainable debt finance and bring in independent reviewers

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

million pounds of plastic from flights; KKR, ECP to invest $50 billion in datacenter capacity and power generation; law firms ramp up ESG training for lawyers; capital raises for sustainable heating, industrial decarbonization, energy sector emissions solutions, and more. Copper Mine Operations to Renewable Diesel Southwest Airlines Eliminates 1.5

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ESG Today

AUGUST 1, 2024

Green bonds continued to account for the majority of sustainable bond issuance at $146 billion for the quarter. Green bond volumes were down 12% year-over-year in the first half of 2024, driven by a sharp decline in Asia Pacific issuance.

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3BL Media

MARCH 30, 2022

Many investors are already familiar with green bonds, which have been on the market since 2007. Green bonds finance a specific project or projects with an environmentally beneficial purpose. Since then, companies have issued new types of bonds to finance a range of green, social and sustainable projects (Display).

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As companies respond to demands for both mandatory and voluntary ESG disclosures, the risk of greenwashing grows. Investors and customers are also initiating litigation to hold companies accountable for greenwashing. Why evaluate greenwashing risks? Recent studies highlight how prevalent greenwashing has become.

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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. Non-financial corporate issuance in the U.S.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

The measures in sum: The package of measures is intended to improve trust and transparency in the market for sustainable investment products and minimize greenwashing. The proposed guidance is designed to help firms better understand the FCA’s expectations under the anti-greenwashing rule and other associated requirements.

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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. Investor demand for green, social, sustainable, sustainability-linked and transition bonds (GSS+) is far outstripping supply, the Climate Bonds Initiative’s (CBI) Green Bond Pricing in the Primary Market H2 report illustrates.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 8, 2023

This week in ESG news: EY, Microsoft launch green skills training program; KPMG survey finds three quarters of companies not ready for upcoming ESG assurance requirements; BlackRock’s new climate transition-focused private debt fund; Austrian Airlines found guilty in greenwashing case; asset owners continuing to increase allocations to ESG investments (..)

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ESG Today

JANUARY 29, 2024

Moody’s anticipates that volumes may bottom out in the region in 2024, with tailwinds from incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act driving increases in green technologies, although the report also notes uncertainty from the upcoming U.S. election on federal climate policy clouding the issuance outlook.

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Chris Hall

MAY 16, 2024

Similarly to green bonds, SLBs have also been criticised for acting as a potential ‘ platform for greenwashing ‘ , with their proceeds sometimes not being used for sustainable causes. Nevertheless, the flexibility they afford has been welcomed in some regions – particularly in developing markets.

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

In this paper, we describe our process for assessing ESG-labeled bonds and show that, by systematically applying this framework, investors can help set a gold standard for the market, avoid surprises from controversy and greenwashing, and potentially generate more alpha over time. Bigger, Broader, Better: The Rise of ESG-Labeled Bonds.

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

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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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 31, 2022

With the introduction of Sustainability Linked Bonds (SLB) as an alternative to green bonds, there has been an increase in SLB-related debt from corporates who aren’t using their loans to fund sustainability-related projects. Hosted by Regulation Asia & ESG Investor on 5 October 2022 online.

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ESG Today

JULY 31, 2023

For the second quarter, GSSS bond issuance volumes of $258 billion were flat over the same period last year, recovering from a sharp decline in the second half of 2022, and significantly outperforming the broader market, with GSSS bonds rising to 15% share of global bond market issuance.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This week in ESG news: EU adopts new law against greenwashing; Walmart reaches 1 billion ton supply chain emissions reduction milestone; S&P forecasts $1 trillion sustainable bond market in 2024; Airbus, TotalEnergies launch sustainable aviation fuel partnership; Verizon invests $1 billion in renewable energy; EU lawmakers agree to certification (..)

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This market boom and increasing focus on labelled bonds represent a significant challenge for investors, where issues around information and behaviours have led to controversy, adverse headlines and even sanctions, along with widespread concerns around greenwashing. Identifying and avoiding greenwashing. Access Report.

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3BL Media

JULY 11, 2023

Target-Based: ESG Bond Goals Have Expanded ESG-labeled bonds have come a long way quickly, and innovation shows no signs of slowing. UOPs, which are project-based, include green bonds and social bonds that firms issue to finance their environmental or social programs.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 8, 2024

No country in the region has made reporting against the frameworks mandatory, further increasing greenwashing risk and due diligence costs. A comprehensive taxonomy can mitigate the risk of greenwashing by enforcing stringent requirements and maintaining transparency.”

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 8, 2024

No country in the region has made reporting against the frameworks mandatory, further increasing greenwashing risk and due diligence costs. A comprehensive taxonomy can mitigate the risk of greenwashing by enforcing stringent requirements and maintaining transparency.”

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The answer depends on the fund, the region, the sector, and the company. In a market that expanded before firm regulatory guardrails were put in place, there is very valid concern that some transition-labelled funds may be perpetuating greenwashing by investing in companies misaligned with credible decarbonisation pathways.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

European regulators have ratcheted up efforts to eliminate greenwashing from the investment sector. End of an era I – The fight against greenwashing inched ahead with the release of final guidelines for naming ESG- or sustainability-related funds by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

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