ESG Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Sustainable Finance Ericsson Issues Inaugural €500 Million Green Bond to Fund Network Energy Efficiency Initiatives Private Equity & Venture Capital Sustainable Building Tech Startup Vizcab Raises $5.5

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Climate factors considered include carbon emissions, green revenues, green bonds, and TPI inputs enabling a forward-looking view on company alignment with the goals of the Paris agreement, encompassing a management quality score and a carbon performance score.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In mid-January, PepsiCo joined that club with a strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent across its entire value chain by 2030 and to reach the elusive net-zero emissions status 10 years before it’s called for by the Paris Agreement. A little over a year ago we issued our first green bond.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

DWS Expands Paris Agreement-Aligned ETF Suite. Nordea Issues First-of-its-Kind Bond to Fund Climate-Focused Sustainability-Linked Loans. Anglo American Ties Interest on $745 Million Bond to Climate, Water & Job Creation Goals. Union Pacific Issues $600 Million Green Bond to Fund Decarbonization Investments.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Beyond divestment, “emissions can be reduced by funding greener companies on public and private markets, but also on fixed income markets, sustainable bonds, green bonds, etc.” While there is still a long way to go to meet the Paris agreement, Free ended the panel with a simple blueprint to reach it.

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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

JULY 15, 2022

Since then, the Paris Agreement and COP26 put forth new demands, resulting in more robust national climate action plans and the recognition that public and private sector initiatives across both developed and developing were required to achieve net zero. The rise of the voluntary carbon market.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

But measures to support the goals of the Paris Agreement must now sit alongside those needed to realise the objectives of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). In anticipation of the NCQG, the OECD released an analysis recommending use of public sector interventions to directly or indirectly finance climate action.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 31, 2022

degrees Celsius by 2050 in line with the Paris Agreement. It is important to point out that food and agriculture are not mere contributors but also among the biggest victims when it comes to climate change and biodiversity loss. There is increasing recognition that we must keep global warming within 1.5

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The firm also said both the climate global bonds and global green bonds strategies incorporate “various sustainable investment elements from Robeco’s SI toolbox”.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2022

Issuance volume rose 45% over 2020, with sustainable bonds accounting for 10% of overall debt capital market activity. Green bonds accounted for around half of all issuance (US$488.8 Social bond issues totalled US192.9 The number of sustainability bond issues doubled versus 2020. Inconsistent information.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

The FTSE JPX Net Zero Japan 500 Index will give investors the ability to align their exposure with the 2015 Paris Agreement using the TOPIX 500 as a base universe,” he said. Green bond designations represent the majority of ESG municipal issuance, accounting for US$19 billion of par volume or 43.6%

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3BL Media

JANUARY 25, 2022

While the agreements and pledges arising from COP26 are laudable, they aren’t enough. C global warming target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. For one, countries’ pledges for reducing carbon emissions by 2030 fall far short of the levels needed to reach the 1.5°C Instead, these 2030 targets are equivalent to 2.3°C,

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Chris Hall

APRIL 15, 2024

Governments signed up to the Paris Agreement are currently preparing the next set of plans to reduce their carbon emissions, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), which are due by 2025. At this year’s COP29 in Azerbaijan, the governments of developed countries will be required to establish a new climate finance goal.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

As one portfolio manager noted recently, investors are paid to identify the strongest of offerings and typically support only the darkest of green bonds. Not so green – Oil and gas firms came under fire this week for continued duplicity in their efforts to reduce emissions and align with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This would put China within range of overachieving on its NDC non-fossil fuel targets, but it would be insufficient to meet the Paris Agreement 1.5C China’s green bond issuances are set to exceed US$100 billion this year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. of the total amount of green bonds issued.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The committee underscored the importance of ensuring the availability of “accurate and reliable” ESG information and noted that the ratings market “currently suffers from a lack of such transparency”.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

Data from the Climate Bonds Initiative reveals sovereign global, social and sustainable (GSS) bond volumes increased by 103% in 2021 raising cumulative issuance to US$193 billion compared to US$95.2 Green bonds provided most of the additional US$97.8 This compares with €28 billion in green bonds and €0.6

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 Finance climate action Financing climate action can take many forms, such as green bonds or sustainability-linked loans.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In 2015, 90 countries included actions for addressing buildings emissions or improving energy efficiency in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. Some small progress, but not enough. This number has now hit 136, although ambition varies.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2024

The forthcoming third round of nationally determined contributions to the Paris Agreement should not just be 1.5°C-aligned, 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

MARCH 25, 2022

degree Celsius increase in global temperatures, which is aligned with the Paris Agreement, and a 2 degree increase which is considered more likely based on recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Investing in green bonds ensures that capital is supporting progress towards climate change targets.

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Jon Hale

JULY 26, 2022

The Paris Agreement and the U.N. Through instruments like green bonds , investors can help finance critical infrastructure needs, the energy transition, and renewable energy projects. It can move much-needed capital to address climate change and other sustainability issues.

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

The basis for many of these is the EU taxonomy (and to a lesser extent China’s mandatory taxonomy for use of green-bond proceeds). China’s mandatory bond system covers six sectors it classes as green: clean energy, clean transport, climate change adaptation, recycling or resource conservation, anti-pollution, and energy efficiency. .

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 29, 2021

Day 3: Long-term strategies and our NDCs Most of the countries in the region are updating their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) with regard to the Paris Agreement. Tools like green budgets, green bonds, macroeconomic modeling, and fiscal policies were discussed as well as how to promote the involvement of private sector.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2024

About half of investors also mentioned climate solutions and some sort of investments in green bonds and assets, or transition assets.

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Sustainability Matters

DECEMBER 3, 2023

More than 110 countries are striving to achieve net zero emissions in alignment with The Paris Agreement, yet Australia currently lacks a well-defined strategy for renewable energy. Tools such as green bonds can help attract greater liquidity and long-term finance 9.”

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Research by S&P found that of 12,000 funds researched, representing US$20 trillion assets under management (AUM), only 11% were aligned with the Paris Agreement to keep temperatures below 2C increase. Of the 51 climate-focused funds, representing US$30 billion AUM, only 10% were Paris aligned.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The GBF’s Goal D, on implementation, contained an unambiguous commitment to aligning public and private financial flows to its overall objectives, with supporting language in the enabling targets, analogous to the Paris Agreement clauses that put climate change on the global agenda in 2015. “We

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

And the Paris Agreement has given us a roadmap to get there through ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions. Efforts to increase MDB climate finance targets, align their lending with the Paris Agreement and discourage new investments in fossil fuel-based power generation are important steps.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Companies to EU Climate Reporting Requirements ESG Services and Tools MAS Releases Finalized Code of Conduct for ESG Ratings and Data Providers Deloitte Launches Sustainability Upskilling Programs for its Professionals with MIT, NYU, ASU Stripe Launches Platform Enabling Businesses to Pre-order Carbon Removal Sustainable Finance FAB Sets $135 Billion (..)

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

THE GREEN BANKER Mitch McEwen 27, Montreal Senior manager, Enterprise Sustainable Finance TD Bank Group Mitch McEwen had always envisioned a career for himself in conventional finance. But studying abroad while the Paris Agreement was being adopted changed everything. I will never stop pushing to make it a reality.”

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

"We need to be at the point where we can call up India and say, 'Hey, we have green cement now; don’t use the dirty stuff,'" Gates said in a December episode of the podcast "Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Questions.". There's a whole new GreenBiz event in April for the emerging green finance space.).

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand, a nation of about 5 million people, in late January reported progress toward its goal to cut emissions by 30 percent over the next decade compared with 2005 levels — but recognized current measures won’t be enough to meet the Paris Agreement goals. 17, there were 53 signatories representing 18 industries. .

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

What it means: The $300bn is a modest step forward, marking progress under the Paris Agreement but falling short of the decisive action and timeline the climate crisis demands. A new crediting mechanism is now in theory operational, the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM, formerly known as the Article 6.4

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The global fight against climate change is gradually gaining momentum, with countries like Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, and the EU reaffirming commitment to the Paris Agreement, and more than 80 mayors in the US confirming that they will continue with agreed guidelines.

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

The US demonstrates the swift difference progressive leadership makes in driving sustainable finance policy. The country is also upping its game on stewardship, with New Zealand’s inaugural Stewardship Code launching last year with 17 signatories, says Simon O’Connor outgoing CEO of RIAA.

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