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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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Japan Launches Inaugural $11 Billion Climate Transition Bond Offering

ESG Today

billion) in proceeds aimed at funding efforts to support the country’s transformation to a carbon neutral economy, with a particular focus on decarbonizing hard-to-abate industrial sectors. billion) in climate transition bonds planned to be issued in the fiscal year starting April 2024. trillion (USD$9.3

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More than a Third of Public Companies Now Reporting Scope 3 Emissions: MSCI

ESG Today

The IFRS Foundation, for example, recently announced that its new climate and sustainability reporting standards, which include Scope 3 reporting, and disclosure on climate risks and opportunities, will take effect in 2024.

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Will small modular reactors seed a nuclear renaissance?

Corporate Knights

Corporate Knights does not consider new nuclear power projects to be “green” in its Sustainable Economy Taxonomy. In its fall fiscal update, the federal government introduced an investment tax credit of up to 30% for clean energy technologies, including SMRs. And then there are SMRs.

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The federal government is more than $14 billion behind on climate funding

Corporate Knights

On the world stage at Davos 2024, Canada’s minister of finance, Chrystia Freeland, declared that “right now we’re living through a moment which is comparable only to the Industrial Revolution.”

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The federal government is more than $14 billion behind in climate funding

Corporate Knights

On the world stage at Davos 2024, Canada’s minister of finance, Chrystia Freeland, declared that “right now we’re living through a moment which is comparable only to the Industrial Revolution.”