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Ontario Power Generation includes nuclear energy in green bonds

Corporate Knights

Provincially owned Ontario Power Generation has adopted a green bond framework that includes nuclear power – a first for the electricity utility. . The move followed a controversial decision in the European Union to classify natural gas and nuclear investments as green. . But does that make them objectively green?

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AllianceBernstein Commits to Net Zero Pathway

3BL Media

degree Celsius pathway by 2050, in support of the Paris Agreement. AB engages with issuers systematically on climate-change risks and opportunities: in 2021, the firm held more than 900 discussions on climate risks, opportunities and other environmental issues.

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The 25 most sustainable private companies in the world

Corporate Knights

The company aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement, largely by helping its customers switch to electric vehicles. By 2023, Bosch reported that 99% of its electricity requirements were met by green energy. billion in hydrogen technologies between 2021 and 2026.

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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'

GreenBiz

Mon, 02/01/2021 - 02:00. 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. It was a $1 billion green bond.

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Commodity AND Security

Chris Hall

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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Stopped in its Tracks

Chris Hall

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. Moving the goalposts.

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ESG Bond Issuance to Quadruple by 2025

Chris Hall

The research, titled ‘ Bonds That Build Back Better ’, predicted a “silent revolution” in the fixed income markets over the next 5-10 years as bond investors increasingly direct capital to the transition to a low carbon economy. ESG bond issuance reached US$1 trillion in 2021 for the first time according to Refinitiv.