ESG Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Bloomberg today announced the launch of new green-tilted versions of some of its flagship fixed income indices, including its Global Aggregate, Treasury and Corporate Indices, aimed at enabling investors to increase exposure to sustainable investments with products that maintain similar characteristics of the parent benchmarks.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements HSBC Buys Biomass-Based Sustainable Aviation Fuel in Deal with Cathay Pacific, EcoCeres Alfa Laval Accelerates Net Zero Goal by 3 Years to 2027 Mercedes-Benz Sharpens Sustainability Focus on 6 Key ESG Areas BlackRock, (..)

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Impakter

MARCH 11, 2023

Impakter EU Green Bond Deal: Sustainable Gold Standard or Unrealistic? In what’s being labelled a “landmark’’ moment for sustainable finance, EU negotiators last week finally announced the agreement of a provisional deal establishing a gold standard for European green bonds (EuGB). Stephen Hare

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Copper Mine Operations to Renewable Diesel Southwest Airlines Eliminates 1.5

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Measures planned over the next few years cover a wide range of initiatives ranging from making TCFD recommendations mandatory for large companies and requiring transparency on stewardship strategies to promoting sustainability in education, issuing Confederation green bonds and supporting global carbon pricing initiatives.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 20, 2023

Of the 6,720 companies the Corporate Knights team analyzed for our 2023 Global 100 ranking of the world’s most sustainable corporations, a select few stand out. billion into green assets, such as renewable energy and EV charging, as well as energy storage and hydrogen production. It pumped €8.6

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Sustainable investing approaches aim to deliver attractive returns through investments in issuers that contribute to positive social and environmental outcomes. Yet this massive opportunity can also create risks, because there is a smaller pool of sustainable investment targets to choose from.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2025

Sustainable investment opportunities and risks are slowly beginning to emerge as Europe outlines its plans to rearm. But some called for a more fundamental reboot of investment in European innovation especially in clean technologies to pursue trajectories that are compatible with its climate transition targets.

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ESG Today

MARCH 30, 2025

ESG Reporting EU Council Approves Delay to CSRD and CSDDD Sustainability Reporting Regulations ISSB Launches New Roadmap Tool to Help Jurisdictions Adopt Sustainability Reporting Standards Guest Post Interoperability: The Missing Link in Global Sustainability Efforts Government & Regulators SEC Drops its Defense of Climate Reporting Rules ESG (..)

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Third BIS green bond fund to channel central bank reserves to green projects in the Asia and Pacific region. . The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched a new green bond fund dedicated to help finance investments in green projects in the Asia and Pacific region.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2024

It includes financial operators and other organizations interested in the environmental and social impact of investments. The Forum’s mission is to promote the knowledge and practice of sustainable investing, with the goal of spreading the inclusion of environmental, social and governance ( ESG ) criteria in financial products and processes.

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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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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2025

According to the report, debt financing remains the dominant source of sustainable investment flows, with green European bond issuance exceeding 200 billion every year since 2021. Outstanding green loans stood at 908 billion in 2023 while green bond volumes reached 781 billion. trillion.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Corporate bond offerings focusing on sustainability and social issues are growing each quarter, and there’s a burgeoning market for loans linked to a company’s ESG performance or other sustainability metrics. As we reported recently , global green bond issuance shot past the $1 trillion mark in September.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 3, 2025

The pullback threatens to erode years of progress, which has made Europe the leading market for sustainable funds , green bonds and other responsible investments, and jeopardizes the capital needed for the EUs ambitious climate goals.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. Green bonds are indeed often oversubscribed due to their success.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Business Benefits of Sustainable Finance Several advantages to sustainable finance go beyond producing dividends. Here are a few of the outcomes that contribute to a company's long-term sustainability and competitiveness. Lower perceived risk can result in lower costs for financing.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

1 Seventy percent of investors in full- or part-time jobs would probably or definitely include sustainable funds in their 401(k)s if offered by their employers’ plans. assets was either in sustainable investments or tied to ESG practices, 3 with assets set to surge from $35 trillion to $50 trillion in the next three years.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Reports released on COP29 ’s Finance Day by the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) and Taskforce on Net Zero Policy have highlighted the significant obstacles that continued policy gaps pose for investors and companies. C temperature pathway.

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Environmental Finance

AUGUST 1, 2023

MainStreet Partners said 28% of existing green and sustainability bonds already meet the main components of the provisional EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS), with the sustainable investment advisor expecting this number to grow.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

By bond type, green bonds continued to hold the largest share of the sustainable bond market, with issuance of $119 billion in the quarter accounting for over half of total volumes, but representing a decline of 13% from the prior year’s Q3.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Investments Leadership Development Program at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, U.S. Many have cited the past year as an inflection point for sustainable investing. I hope to see an increased push for carbon-neutral investments and economic structures that are available to people of all financial and social classes.

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ESG Today

MARCH 23, 2025

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements Amazon Launches Carbon Credit Investment Service SBTi Releases Initial Draft of New Corporate Net Zero Standard Nordea Signs 68,000 Tonne Carbon Removal Agreement UBS Pushes Back Net Zero Target by 10 Years Following (..)

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ESG Today

APRIL 21, 2024

Billion in Financing Tied to Sustainability Goals Private Equity & Venture Capital Fintech Startup Unwritten Raises $3.5 Billion in Financing Tied to Sustainability Goals Private Equity & Venture Capital Fintech Startup Unwritten Raises $3.5 to Fund Clean Energy Buildout EdgeConneX Secures $1.9

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ESG Today

JULY 27, 2023

The Impact Corporate Bond Fund will invest globally in corporate high yield and investment grade green, social and sustainable bonds that have clearly defined social or environmental objectives and impact, with a focus on bonds that target a broad range of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Jon Hale

DECEMBER 22, 2021

End of Week Notes And 4 ways that it’s having a positive impact on the world Sustainable investing had another successful year of growth, performance, and influence in 2021. Global sustainable funds attracted record inflows in just the first three quarters of the year, while their overall assets under management approached $4 trillion.

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ESG Today

JULY 18, 2022

Netherlands-based asset manager NN Investment Partners (NN IP) announced today the launch of the NN (L) Social Bond fund, expanding the firm’s impact bond offerings with a fund focused on investments in social and sustainability bonds that allocate proceeds to social projects with clear social benefits to specific target populations.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 11, 2024

Solar Market with 395 MW Acquisition The LYCRA Company Sets 2030 Supply Chain Emissions Reduction Goal Guest Post: Connecting Opportunities with Financial Drivers – Why Businesses Must Embed Sustainability Within Corporate Decision-Making Now More Than Ever ICVCM Rejects Carbon Credits Based on Renewable Energy Woodside Acquires Texas-Based Low Carbon (..)

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

FCA confirms sustainability disclosure and labeling regime The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a policy statement setting out its final rules and guidance on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels. Next steps: The first issue of green bonds is expected to occur in mid-2024.

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Jon Hale

JULY 26, 2022

Sustainability Matters More capital is needed to address climate change and other sustainability issues. Sustainable investing can be a win-win for emerging-markets investors. It can be impactful, playing an important role in allocating capital to address climate change and other sustainability issues.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements Microsoft Signs Multi-Year Carbon Removal Deal Based on Rocket Science Tech Google Signs Brazil Reforestation-Based Carbon Removal Purchase Deal The Home Depot Eliminates Hard to Recycle Packaging Materials from (..)

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biodiversity’s bond boom – Demand for sovereign debt is already soaring this year on expectations of falling interest rates, with France already benefiting from a twelve-fold oversubscription to its fourth green bond earlier this week. billion over four issues.

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ESG Today

MARCH 24, 2024

Million to Turn Landfill Waste into Renewable Biofuels ESG Investing Texas Pulls $8.5 Billion From BlackRock Over ESG Investing BlackRock Calls Texas Decision to Divest $8.5 Renewables Developer Avantus Renovare Raising $7.5

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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. Nearly US$800 billion ESG-labeled bond issuance in 2021.

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ESG Today

JULY 25, 2024

ESMA also recommended the establishment of a product categorization system for sustainable and transition investments, to help investors understand financial products’ sustainability characteristics and simplify product selection.

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3BL Media

JUNE 22, 2022

Issued 16 green bonds between 2018-2021, and its global line of credit and additional lines of credit are linked to sustainability metrics. Invested $150 million in nearly 40 companies through Prologis Ventures since 2016, including those focused on innovation in ESG and sustainability.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In its “Investing in a sustainable future” category, the HKMA is targeting the achievement of net zero in its own Exchange Fund investment portfolio, with plans to expand its scope of sustainable investments, incorporate ESG and climate factors into investment decision making, and set ESG expectations for external managers and portfolio companies.

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