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Road to Reform

Chris Hall

Tangible progress could be seen on multilateral development banks’ reform and climate finance commitments at the World Bank and IMF’s Spring Meetings, according to E3G Senior Policy Advisor Laura Sabogal Reyes. A critical component in rolling out the mission is the World Bank’s new corporate scorecard , Sabogal Reyes explained.

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How Green Bonds Will Fund a Green Future

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: More securities labeled as environmental, social and governance (ESG) bonds are being issued by a wider variety of companies than ever before. This is a welcome development, because such financing will play a critical role in the global transition to a greener world. But not all ESG-labeled bonds are equal.

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Finance Majors Invest in “Cleaner, Greener” Farming

Chris Hall

The organisations concerned are Dutch bank Rabobank, Mexican development institution FIRA, multilateral funder the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Mauritian private equity group Phatisa, Norwegian chemical company Yara, US asset manager Nuveen Natural Capital and Dutch group Signature Agri Investments.

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Asia’s Sovereigns to Embrace Sustainable Bonds

Chris Hall

Moody’s cited challenges including short-term post-pandemic support for businesses and households, long-term sustainable development challenges, including climate risk mitigation, and gradual, uneven recovery in revenue streams. Developing economies globally need to invest as much as US$4.5 trillion) to reach the goals.

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ESG Bond Issuance to Quadruple by 2025

Chris Hall

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. “If trillion per year. “By

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This Week’s People Moves: Simpson Steps Down as CDP CEO

Chris Hall

She will focus on the global development of Acadian’s systematic macro business, including building out its sustainable investment framework. Prior to joining, Stevenson was Head of Business Development at Neuron Advisers, a boutique quantitative alternative investment firm. billion of assets, as of 31 March 2021.

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This Week’s Fund News: HSBC AM Targets Circular Economy, Exits Coal

Chris Hall

The fund, which is labelled as Article 9 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), will have no fixed allocations across geographies, sub-subsectors or company stages, targeting wholesale and institutional investors with a “particular focus on high-net-worth individuals, family offices and private banks”.