Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2025

Asset managers Head of Fixed Income hopes market expansion will eliminate need for the purely green bond-focused vehicle within the next decade. Niche to mainstream evolution Storebrand stated that the fund was the first commercial green bond fund, building on the first ever green bond issued by the World Bank in 2008.

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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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ESG Today

APRIL 2, 2023

Manufacturing Government & Regulators Canada Announces Over $80 Billion Clean Tech & Energy Investments to Compete with U.S. Billion Green Bond Private Equity & Venture Capital JPMorgan Builds Out Sustainable Growth Private Equity Team ESG Data Startup Atlas Metrics Raises €5.2

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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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Strategic Sustainability Consulting

JULY 7, 2021

Without a realistic, actionable plan in place, companies are either ignoring climate impacts or simply greenwashing. Census Bureau, “water-intensive sectors like manufacturing use 18 billion gallons of water per day in their processes, and account for nearly one quarter of freshwater withdrawals.” With the U.S.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2024

The result is an ESG investor’s nightmare, combining opaque supply chains with forced labour and resource-intensive manufacturing. Golden green – Australia took another step along its belated path to net zero under the Albanese government with the issuance of A$7 billion (US$4.7 billion) in green sovereign debt.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Although the EU Taxonomy and SFDR were designed to increase transparency and reduce opportunities for greenwashing, it’s still early days, and there is much work to do. It is also forcing some funds to downgrade their claims and status. Very few funds are reporting exposure to taxonomy alignment higher than 0”, said Bioy.

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