3BL Media

JULY 10, 2025

The rapid and widespread adoption of WELL represents a twelve-fold increase since early 2020 and a tremendous financial investment by the real estate industry and other leading sectors to put people at the center of their workplace strategy, helping drive the healthy building movement.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Global energy and electricity provider Iberdrola announced a €300 million (USD$328 million) ESG-linked green loan from the World Bank, through its private sector investment arm, International Finance Corporation (IFC), aimed at funding renewables projects in countries that depend coal, including Morocco, Poland and Vietnam.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Tue, 12/08/2020 - 02:11. Hence, the addition of sustainability-linked finance — bonds and loans with terms tied to environmental (and, in some cases, social) outcomes. That’s the realm of banks and other financial institutions. "OK, We’ll focus, as my learning journey did, primarily on ESG investing and green bonds and loans.

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ESG Today

JULY 7, 2023

Tokyo-based banking and financial services company Mizuho announced a new goal to facilitate JPY 100 trillion ($USD 700 billion) in sustainable finance between 2019 – 2030, including JPY 50 trillion in environment and climate change-related finance. Mizuho also announced the issuance of a $1.4

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3BL Media

MAY 26, 2022

Through new initiatives, the bank sharpens focus on renewable energy, environmental financing and sustainability disclosures. In 2021, the bank committed to mobilize $20 billion in support of environmental finance over five years. "We SOURCE: PNC Financial Services Group. Meeting Client Needs. Calculating Financed Emissions.

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3BL Media

MARCH 23, 2022

Along the way, we achieved many “firsts,” such as being the first regional bank to publish a Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Report in 2019; to achieve 100% renewable power use through a single, solar project, also in 2019; and becoming the first regional bank to achieve carbon neutrality for its own operations in 2020.

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

It also makes Fifth Third the only bank in its peer group to have maintained a leadership band score for three consecutive years. The Bank has been recognized as a leader by other ESG data providers, including Sustainalytics, MSCI and S&P Global. About TCFD.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 28, 2024

Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, Iceland’s Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, talks about the country’s inaugural green bond issuance, which was promptly followed by the world’s first sovereign gender bond. This year has already started strong, with large-ticket green bond issuances from the EU, France, Austria and the UK.

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3BL Media

MAY 27, 2022

Fifth Third has been carbon neutral for these emissions since 2020 with the purchase of 100% renewable power and verified carbon offsets for the remaining emissions. Issued inaugural $500 million Green Bond in November 2021. Fifth Third is the only bank among peers to achieve a Leadership Score for three consecutive years.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2024

Agathe Foussard, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, Mirova, considers recent trends in sustainable bond investments. Launched in 2008, the sustainable bond market, particularly Green Bonds, grew continuously… until 2022, when the most dramatic interest rate increases in 40 years brought this expansion to a halt.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 27, 2022

Earlier this month, the Climate Bonds Initiative reported that green, social and sustainability-themed debt issuance grew by 57% compared to the previous year, reaching almost US$1.1 Further, annual green bond issuance increased by 75% from 2020 levels, reaching US$522.7 Comeback for covered bonds.

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3BL Media

MAY 9, 2022

Fifth Third has been carbon neutral for these emissions since 2020 with the purchase of 100% renewable power and verified carbon offsets for the remaining emissions. Issued inaugural $500 million Green Bond in November 2021. Fifth Third is the only bank among peers to achieve a Leadership Score for three consecutive years.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We expect this trend to continue while seeing a larger incorporation of issuer-reported sustainable bond data in investment due diligence. The number of sustainable debt instruments listed on Nasdaq grew by 11% during 2022 and the volume of listed bonds grew by 27%.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As of January 2023, green bonds had raised US$2.5 trillion globally, according to the World Bank from a mere US$15 billion in 2013. Part-credit for this meteoritic growth has been given to the Green Bond Principles (GBP) launched in 2014. we combine this so the guidance draws on that ”.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2022

The market for climate-aligned bonds has developed in response to a shortage of ESG-labelled debt, with investors seeking instead to identify the debt securities of firms deriving the vast majority of their revenues from climate-aligned activities. Green bonds accounted for around half of all issuance (US$488.8

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

In 2020, the world generated 2.24 By 2050, annual waste generation is expected to increase 73% from 2020 levels (up to 3.88 The Swedish city of Gothenburg published the last iteration of its Green Bond Framework back in 2019. [9] 10] So far, the green projects include municipal utility company Göteborg Energi’s 5.5

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Sovereigns have been relatively late entrants to sustainable bond markets following corporates and supra-national entities (such as the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), which issued the first green debt securities in the mid-2000s.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), which estimates a US$3.1 The issuer base is likely to expand through multilateral support and as investor appetite for sustainable bonds catches up with vanilla bonds,” Moody’s added. Developing economies globally need to invest as much as US$4.5 trillion) to reach the goals.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Green finance – typically global bond, loans, and other long-term markets – has reached almost US$2 trillion in volume. Annual green bond issuance broke through the half trillion mark for the first time, ending 2021 at US$522.7 billion, a 75% increase on prior year volumes, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Other binding targets include increasing the share of days with good air quality in cities up to 87.5% (from 87% in 2020) and increasing forest coverage to 24.1%. GtCO2e in 2020 and set to reach 13.2-14.5 The total installed capacity of wind and solar power reached over 530 GW by the end of 2020. limit for global warming.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

Before joining CalPERS, Simpson was a Senior Faculty Fellow and Lecturer at the Yale School of Management, Head of the Global Corporate Governance Forum at the World Bank, Executive Director of the International Corporate Governance Network and Joint Managing Director of Pensions and Investment Research Consultants (PIRC).

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

End of an era II – Until recently, opportunistic portfolio managers could stuff their ‘green’ portfolios with tech stocks to deliver strong returns at relatively little expense to the planet. Italy’s green debt relief – Scarcity of sustainable assets was only one of the reasons for record-breaking demand for €9 billion (US$9.71

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Chris Hall

JUNE 28, 2022

The market has taken off since the ICMA issued its Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles in June 2020. . SLBs are the fastest growing part of the bond market and amassed US$118.8 billion last year, with a YoY growth of 941%, according to a recent report by the NGO Climate Bonds Initiative.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused CO2 emissions from buildings and construction to fall significantly in 2020, but a lack of real transformation in the sector means that emissions will keep rising and contribute to dangerous climate change, according to the 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The Africa Development Bank estimates that the continent will require an average of US$1.4 trillion between 2020-30 to implement Africa’s climate action commitments and nationally determined contributions (NDCs). billion between 2020–30. billion between 2020–30. Why is this financing gap so large and persistent?

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GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

midsection to dismiss what they perceived as a fad — after he approached them about why courses in green bonds, ESG funds, sustainability-linked loans and other green finance instruments weren’t part of his university curriculum. . Of the 6,000 companies it surveyed in 2020, more than a third have done so.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Mediolanum International Funds is the European asset management platform of Medio lanum Banking Group. Invesco has launched its Invesco Environmental Climate Opportunities (ECO) Bond Fund , which offers UK investors income and growth while supporting the transition to a low-carbon global economy.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

Mon, 08/24/2020 - 02:11. One silver lining of this horrific moment is the rise of loans, bonds and other financial instruments linked to sustainability outcomes. Pandemic bonds join a growing list of sustainability-linked financial instruments that have been gaining the attention of investors worldwide. Joel Makower.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2020

? Ranked world's top real estate company and top Singapore company in 2020 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World by Corporate Knights ? CDL's ISR 2020 highlights its strategy anchored on four pillars - integration, innovation, investment and impact. 38% reduction in carbon emissions intensity from 2007 levels ?

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James Militzer

MAY 3, 2022

The latest Fair Finance India Policy Assessment 2020 noted this discrepancy, highlighting that assessed banks in India have scored highest on the themes of financial inclusion, followed by corruption and transparency and accountability, whereas they have scored very poorly on the environment theme, which includes climate change and nature.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2023

This engagement could lower the potential risk of the investment through addressing key conflicts and peace. It’s really grown up a bit and I’m hopeful that others will see that as well and be able to make investments that are helpful.” The post A Market for Peace appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

THE GREEN CREATIVE Smiely Khurana 26, Vancouver Former sustainability lead at Reel Green and founder of The Sustainable Act As the sustainability lead at Reel Green, Smiely Khurana was called “the face of the sustainability movement in Hollywood North,” helping major studios and films of all sizes in British Columbia shrink their carbon footprints.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

One other recent crusade is pushing e-commerce retailers such as Amazon, eBay and Walmart to disclose more about the climate effects and chemical compositions of the millions of products they sell, which EDF supported with a roadmap of suggestions in summer 2020. "We Celine Herweijer, Partner, Global Innovation and Sustainability Leader, PwC.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

There are potential opportunities both for equity and fixed income investors, the latter including green bonds issuance. This would better inform central banks, commercial banks and insurers and drive refined and more appropriate actions. There are of course concerns over the use of technology in unscrupulous hands.

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

Australia is forecast to earn US$302 billion from resource and energy exports, reports Energy Monitor. Graham says at an ASFI event in December the Australia’s Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced a sweeping sustainable finance agenda.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 5, 2024

Power generation from coal in China increased by 12% from 2020 to 2023, delivering 44% of overall power generation growth, according to recent research from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). As part of these efforts, China has also sharpened its focus on green and ESG regulation.

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