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Global Sustainable Bond Issuance Rebounds to $281 Billion in Q1 2024: Moody’s

ESG Today

Issuance volumes of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds rebounded sharply in Q1 2024 over the prior quarter, rising 36% to $281 billion, up from $207 billion in Q4 2023, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service.

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Social Safeguards “Critical” to EU Taxonomy

Chris Hall

The environmental taxonomy must implement minimum safeguards to ensure the EU isn’t “closing its eyes to the social impacts of greening its economies”, according to Signe Andreasen Lysgaard, Strategic Advisor on Business and Human Rights at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. .

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: Bloomberg Launches Global GSS Bond Indices

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Bloomberg, Normative, Sugi, ISS ESG, FE fundinfo and MSCI. . By giving investors a fuller picture of their impact, we want to help them make genuinely greener choices when they manage their portfolios.” .

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Take Five: No Magic Green Wand

Chris Hall

Meanwhile, the opposition Labour party displayed tone-deafness to the latest alarm bells of the climate crisis by ditching its £28 billion (US$35 billion) green investment pledge in the name of fiscal responsibility. Missed opportunity – How many green-tinged U-turns can we fit into one blog? Just one more.

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ESG Bond Issuance to Quadruple by 2025

Chris Hall

The ESG-labelled bond markets are typically considered to include green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds. Achieving net zero by 2050 could require the climate bond universe to reach US$36 trillion by 2025 and over US$60 trillion by 2030, it added. trillion per year. “By

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Take Five: Australia’s Long Haul

Chris Hall

Investors keen to explore Australia’s renewables potential, including green hydrogen , will be watching closely. Not if the SEC has its way.

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The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition

Corporate Knights

Now we can measure this green business exposure for the majority of companies and are able to count annual green investments that run into the trillions, growing six times faster than the economy at large,” Heaps says. “We did the best job possible with limited qualitative corporate disclosure.” “Now