Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

From the ranking leader Hydro-Qubecs $155-billion green-energy expansion plan, to 12th-place Bpifrance banks financing solar and wind power loans, the inaugural list shows how investments in renewable energy pay off. Bpifrance Bpifrance is a French public-sector bank that bills itself as a one stop shop for entrepreneurs.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 30, 2024

In response, Kenya and other African pioneers are exploring alternative financing mechanisms such as green bonds and debt-for-nature swaps. The African Development Bank estimates that Africa incurs annual losses of between $7 and $15 billion (all dollar figures are U.S.) The need for adaptation strategies is urgent.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

It also says it has installed capacity of around 28 megawatts of wind power and is developing photovoltaic plants with a planned capacity of approximately 58 MW. OeKB focuses on five service areas: export, capital markets, energy markets, development financing and tourism. Canada 47.2% 12 Biffa PLC United Kingdom 56% 63.4%

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Triodos Bank U.K. is responding with an impact bond fund that starts at £20 per share. The Triodos Sterling Bond Impact Fund, launching in early November, will invest in corporate, social and green bonds, and U.K. The post Triodos Bank develops impact bond fund for U.K. gilts,” or sovereign.

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Global Renewable News

JUNE 26, 2023

Highlights Guaranteed by Credit Guarantee & Investment Facility, a trust fund of the Asian Development Bank, the 5-year senior unsecured green bond has been rated AA by S&P Global Ratings.

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ESG Today

MARCH 30, 2025

Solar and Storage Portfolio from Engie 84% of Companies Keeping or Accelerating Climate Targets: PwC Guest Post: Clean Energy in the Age of AI Striking the Right Balance Guest Post Melting Hope: Can We Answer the Glaciers SOS?

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

billion sustainability-linked credit facility in 2019, it did so as part of its sustainability-linked financing framework, and to mark its commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. When Enel, an Italian utility, launched a $1.61 But the dramatic surge will depend on better disclosure, better ratings and better metrics. GreenFin 21.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Out of its class A secured debt of £15 billion, about £3 billion is labelled green, potentially making the company a green bond default case. Green bonds are structurally no different to conventional bonds under the same class (with the same ranking, covenants and security package among all creditors in the case of distress).

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Their awareness has come a long way since her joint presentation with Michael Mullan, Programme Lead, Climate Adaptation Finance and Investment at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, on how to align finance with climate resilient development “fell on deaf ears” at COP26 in Glasgow. “[At

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ESG Today

JULY 4, 2024

Deutsche Bank announced today that it has raised €500 million through its first-ever social bond offering, with proceeds aimed at supporting the bank’s sustainable asset pool which provides financing for areas including affordable housing, and access to essential services for elderly or vulnerable people.

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Global Renewable News

JULY 3, 2022

By Vanora Bennett With its.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Among the key priorities outlined by the HKMA’s new agenda include directives for banks to reach net zero financed emissions by 2050 and to provide disclosures on climate risks and opportunities, and for the HKMA to incentivize sustainable finance innovation and to provide sustainable-financed training programs for finance professionals.

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ESG Today

MAY 9, 2023

For the study, Bain surveyed 55 banks together with the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM), and also carried out conversations with respondents, IACPM’s advisory council, as well as senior risk, finance and sustainability executives. The banks’ views of risks and opportunities varied significantly by region.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 28, 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 Fifth Third.

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Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

By Rezo.

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ESG Today

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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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

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. trillion annually.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. Green bonds are indeed often oversubscribed due to their success.

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Global Renewable News

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

By Vanora.

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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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Corporate Knights

MARCH 3, 2025

The pullback threatens to erode years of progress, which has made Europe the leading market for sustainable funds , green bonds and other responsible investments, and jeopardizes the capital needed for the EUs ambitious climate goals. We need to treat these developments as a call to action. and Europe over the Ukraine war.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

“The Emerging Leaders program provides a forum where environmentally focused youth can explore and learn about climate solutions and sustainability efforts across public and private sectors,” said Alex Liftman, global environmental executive at Bank of America, which sponsored the program at GreenFin. Gabrielle Xu. Mecca Luster.

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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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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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3BL Media

MAY 26, 2022

Through new initiatives, the bank sharpens focus on renewable energy, environmental financing and sustainability disclosures. PNC is helping advance the market for green energy and the development of those sources. In 2021, the bank committed to mobilize $20 billion in support of environmental finance over five years. "We

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3BL Media

APRIL 30, 2025

While some government regulators are reducing or eliminating sustainability reporting requirements, a wide range of industry trade groups and organizations continue to develop reporting standards and best practices to help businesses achieve sustainability targets. According to an article below from CME Group, to date more than 18.2

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ESG Today

JULY 29, 2022

Green bonds were the primary driver of the quarter-over-quarter GSSS bond recovery, growing 28% in the quarter to $136 billion, and roughly flat over the prior year quarter. Volumes for both social, at $34 billion, and sustainability bonds, at $35 billion, continued to decline, falling 40% and 36% year-over-year, respectively.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2024

ESG finance is growing in importance precisely because it makes a key contribution to achieving these goals toward more sustainable development models. 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

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Environmental Finance

AUGUST 22, 2024

billion) green bond persisted after the deal was more than twice oversubscribed by investors, with the German development bank already reaching its 2024 green bond funding target. KfW reported the 'greenium' on its €3 billion ($3.3

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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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Environmental Finance

JUNE 20, 2023

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has raised SEK1 billion ($93 million) from the first "digital green bond" in Europe, which was issued through an open source platform developed by SEB and Crédit Agricole CIB (CA-CIB).

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Environmental Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

German development bank KfW has raised 3 billion ($3.1 billion) from a tap of its existing green bond due March 2032, with the deal attracting an orderbook of around 8.75

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Based in France, Saur operates in 20 countries, with services including providing drinking water, purifying wastewater, and developing water management infrastructure. The company is the first French corporate and first European water utility to issue a blue bond.

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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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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Corporate bond offerings focusing on sustainability and social issues are growing each quarter, and there’s a burgeoning market for loans linked to a company’s ESG performance or other sustainability metrics. As we reported recently , global green bond issuance shot past the $1 trillion mark in September. Tower of Babel.

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Environmental Finance

MAY 1, 2024

billion) from an "extraordinary" green bond of 2024, which the German development bank said reopens the discussions around the 'greenium' for green bonds. KfW has raised €4 billion ($4.3

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