Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

trillion in 2022, thanks to an increasing number of private equity funds and assets, up from about US$600 billion in 2000. Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG Sustainable development bank Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) or Austrian Control Bank is a special-purpose financial institution owned by Austrias main banks.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

DESCRIPTION: CINCINNATI, February 28, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq: FITB) today published its second Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures Report. It also makes Fifth Third the only bank in its peer group to have maintained a leadership band score for three consecutive years. SOURCE: Fifth Third Bancorp.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The database simplifies sustainable investing with an intuitive, easy-to- use solution that allows investors to discover, compile and compare sustainable bonds as well as generate impact reports. In 2022, we launched functionalities that report on the EU taxonomy alignment of projects financed by issuers’ green and sustainable bonds.

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3BL Media

JULY 13, 2022

PNC Bank’s long-term commitment supports development of 78 megawatts of new solar; helps company reduce carbon footprint by more than 55,000 metric tons each year. Schneider Electric, a leading global advisor on corporate renewable energy procurement, supported PNC Bank in the selection of and negotiations for the retail agreement.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2024

trillion in 2022. An interesting ongoing trend is the growth of green bonds. In 2022, green bond issues accounted for more than half of all sustainable bonds issued in the same year (58%, $487.1 over issuances in the same period of 2022, arriving at $351.9

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Despite macroeconomic headwinds, GSS+ issuance maintains pace with overall bond market, reports Climate Bonds Initiative. The cumulative figure was described as “a huge milestone” in the latest quarterly update from Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), which administers the Climate Bonds Standard and Certification Scheme.

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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

JUNE 13, 2022

Framework sets out how government will issue and manage sovereign green bond issuances. Singapore’s Ministry of Finance and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have published a new governance framework for sovereign green bonds, announcing plans to issue the first such bonds in the “coming months”.

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ESG Today

JULY 29, 2022

Sustainable bond issuance outperformed the broader market in the second quarter of 2022, reaching a record 15% of global total issuance, according to a new report from Moody’s ESG Solutions. Moody’s maintained its forecast for stronger GSSS volumes in the second half of the year, and its $1 trillion full year estimate.

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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 January 2022, PNC announced its membership to the U.S. In 2021, the bank committed to mobilize $20 billion in support of environmental finance over five years. "We SOURCE: PNC Financial Services Group.

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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

billion) from green bonds in 2023, after the German development bank reached a $65 billion cumulative issuance total in 2022. KfW plans to raise a further €10 billion ($10.6

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Sphera

JANUARY 10, 2022

Just one year ago, a European Central Bank report, which addressed how the European banking sector manages climate and environmental risks, found that most banks do not have concrete plans to start preparing for climate change. 1, 2022, but fully integrated on Jan. The question is: How soon will this change?

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

DESCRIPTION: CINCINNATI, March 15, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Fifth Third published its second TCFD Report on February 28, 2022. The 2021 TCFD Report demonstrates the Company’s progress in implementing the TCFD’s recommendations and summarizes the Bank’s advancement in climate-related disclosures since its inaugural report in late 2019.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

Focused on green buildings, renewable energy and clean transportation, commitment deepens the bank's support of clients transitioning to a low-carbon economy. The bank initially announced in August 2021 a commitment of $20 billion over five years in support of environmental finance. The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.

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3BL Media

MAY 27, 2022

DESCRIPTION: CINCINNATI, May 27, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Fifth Third today announced six new operational sustainability targets to be achieved by 2030. These targets build upon the Bank’s initial five goals set in 2017, which established the foundation for Fifth Third to reduce the environmental impact in its own operations.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 29, 2023

A key performance indicator from our Emissions Reduction Strategic Plan 2022-2030 requires a minimum 50% reduction in gross emissions across all material sources as reported to maintain our Australian Government Climate Active carbon neutral certification. What were the key success factors in implementing the case study?

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Shades of Green’s Second Party Opinions (SPOs) are independent, research-based assessments on companies’ and governments’ green, sustainability and sustainability-linked debt issuances and frameworks, evaluating alignment with market standards, typically provided before any borrowing is raised.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The new financing follows the company’s announcement in 2021 of plans for its financing structure to have an increasingly higher percentage of green and sustainable products, estimated to account for nearly two-thirds of its debt by 2025. Global energy and electricity provider Iberdrola announced today that it has signed a €5.3

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3BL Media

MAY 9, 2022

DESCRIPTION: CINCINNATI, May 9, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Fifth Third today announced six new operational sustainability targets to be achieved by 2030. These targets build upon the Bank’s initial five goals set in 2017, which established the foundation for Fifth Third to reduce the environmental impact in its own operations.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

ROP, which has received support from Standard Chartered Bank and UBS as joint structuring advisors, will adhere to the Framework which will also enable support for social projects that will provide access to education, basic infrastructure, food security, jobs and affordable housing.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2024

For background: In 2022, the FCA appointed the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and the International Regulatory Strategy Group (IRSG) to convene an industry group to develop a globally consistent voluntary code for those providing the third-party data and ratings increasingly relied upon by the market.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 24, 2023

The European Central Bank (ECB) announced today the publication of a series of new statistical indicators aimed at helping to analyze climate-related risks in the financial sector and track the progress of the sustainable finance market.

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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

Investors should scrutinise the growth of sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) to get a better handle on greenium levels in 2022, said French asset manager Mirova. Mirova believes this will balance out to 2 bps for senior debt in 2022, and 5 bps for senior corporate debt (excluding financials). Comeback for covered bonds.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The same week that PepsiCo announced its new ambition, the company’s foundation extended the terms of its 14-year-long relationship with the Inter-American Development Bank — with initiatives including a fund meant to promote the inclusion of women in regenerative, sustainable agricultural models in Latin America.

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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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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

AUGUST 14, 2023

The latest market update from the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has revealed that GSS+ finance volumes reached US$4.2 The latter nonetheless represents a 15% year-on-year decline compared to H1 2022. Green bonds made up 62% of the total aligned GSS+ debt (US$278.8 billion) of aligned green volumes.

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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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James Militzer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Pioneering microfinance firms such as Grameen Bank in Bangladesh received subsidies and initial funding from development finance institutions and foundations, which allowed them to gradually scale their businesses. The bank has achieved a recovery rate of over 96%, which is significantly higher than traditional banking systems.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2023

Africa has seen rapid growth in issuance of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSS+) bonds and could prove enticing to investors, in spite of existing challenges. The UN previously described the GSS bond market as a “new frontier that can help Africa build a deeper, resilient, and sustainable financing”.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

Gradual Development of Urban GSS Market Exhibit 1: Urban GSS Securities (2013–2022) The past nine years of data show that local authorities in Germany so far have issued the most urban GSS bonds. The Swedish city of Gothenburg published the last iteration of its Green Bond Framework back in 2019. [9]

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

trillion in Asia-Pacific alone; regulatory uncertainty around a concept barely a decade old and the difficulty of valuing a communal fluid asset has opened a trench in financing between sustainable green bonds and their blue peers. The cumulative value of green bonds issued reached US$2.2

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Pierre Garrault, Senior Policy Adviser at the European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif), points to fund names rules published by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) – which will come into effect from 21 November.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

For example, ESG-labelled bond issuances are booming, including green bonds that enable proceeds to be invested directly into sustainable projects. Multi-asset managers can combine equities and fixed income, and integrate exposure to nontraditional assets like real estate and infrastructure.

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