Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Green bond investors should be cautious about Dutch bank green bonds allocated heavily to Dutch real estate, ABN Amro said,

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ESG Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

billion) in its inaugural green bond offering, kicking off a multi-year program aimed at raising up to S$35 billion to fund the country’s sustainable transition strategy. The offering of the August 2022 bonds was met with strong demand, with the S$2.4 Billion in Inaugural Green Bond Offering appeared first on ESG Today.

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 8, 2024

The Indian central bank plans to expand foreign investor access to its sovereign green bond programme by allowing those firms in special economic zones in the country to invest directly in the instruments.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

billion in green bonds, in an offering that saw strong investor demand, despite recent market headwinds. The green bond offering, consisting of a €750 million six-year maturity bond and a €750 million a ten-year maturity bond, was more than 3.5x Billion Green Bond appeared first on ESG Today.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

AUGUST 3, 2022

The market for financing climate-related projects through green bonds is surging, but Vietnamese banks need to act quickly to reap the rewards.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 31, 2023

At Investors for Paris Compliance, we just reviewed our major banks' net zero progress to assess whether they may have it covered. Unfortunately, this isn’t what the banks mean. As long as banks can profit from increasing emissions, they will – even if it contradicts their own net-zero promises.

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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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Environmental Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Aareal Bank is planning to issue its third benchmark-sized green bond in 2024, after the German property lender updated its green finance framework with new and tightened green building criteria.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Tokyo-based banking and financial services company Mizuho announced today an €800 green bond issuance, its largest to date, and the largest euro-denominated green bond issued by a financial institution. Proceeds from the new issuance will be used to finance environmentally friendly projects through Mizuho Bank.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Government of Singapore will launch its first green bond offering this week, kicking off a S$35 billion (US$25 billion) multi-year green bond program with an inaugural issuance of at least S$1.5 billion, according to a statement from central bank and financial regulator the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

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ESG Today

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Government of India’s first ever issuance of green bonds met strong demand, with orders exceeding the offering size by more than 4 times, earning the bonds a 5-6 basis point “greenium,” or a favorable yield spread relative to similar issues lacking green credentials, according to results released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 14, 2023

Mongolian lender Khan Bank is preparing to issue the first green bond in the domestic Mongolian market, just three months after making its ground-breaking international sustainable bond debut.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Government of India will issue its first-ever green bond this month, according to an announcement by the Reserve Bank of India, with plans to raise approximately US$2 billion to support green infrastructure projects aimed at reducing the carbon intensity of the economy.

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 24, 2023

The Swiss asset manager has been "positively surprised" by the financial institution response to engagement by its ground-breaking green bond fund, Ahren Lester reports

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Third BIS green bond fund to channel central bank reserves to green projects in the Asia and Pacific region. . The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched a new green bond fund dedicated to help finance investments in green projects in the Asia and Pacific region.

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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Société Générale has raised €10 million ($11 million) from its first digital green bond using blockchain, which the French bank said was a "first step" towards using blockchain as a sustainability impact data and certification tool for green bond issuers and investors.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

This is supported by findings published in their most recent report (2021), which described a 21% increase in emerging market (ex-China) green bond issuances from 2019 and a total of $40billion emerging market green bond issuances in 2020. What is the potential of green bonds to address this imbalance?

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 14, 2023

ImpactAlpha, March 14 — Jordan Kuwait Bank issued Jordan’s first green bond to finance clean energy projects, low-carbon transportation, energy efficient real estate. The post Jordan’s first green bond secures $50 million from IFC appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The EU-led Global Green Bond Initiative (GGBI) has signed a partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB) as part of its plan to expand its emerging and developing market green bond technical assistance programme.

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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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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The draft final agreement on the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) could trigger a "renovation wave" among European bank green bonds, according to Dutch lender ABN Amro.

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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 7, 2023

KfW has added biodiversity to its green bond framework as the German development bank aims to raise up to €13 billion ($14 billion) from its green-labelled issuance in 2024.

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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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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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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

German development bank has reiterated its commitment to investing in green bonds after its €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) eight-year government-mandated market growth promotion programme was successfully completed.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Global media and communications company announced today its first green bond offering, raising $1 billion, with proceeds from the 10-year bond aimed at supporting the company’s environmental sustainability goals, including its target to be carbon neutral by 2035.

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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A loophole introduced to the proposed harmonisation of the EU Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) regime for buildings has prevented a "bad taste" among investors regarding some bank green bonds, but retains fragmented 'green' building designations, ABN Amro has said.

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Environmental Finance

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has raised $5 billion from the largest ever US dollar-denominated green bond from a supranational, with the size of the orderbook also setting a record.

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Environmental Finance

JANUARY 9, 2023

billion) from two debut sovereign green bonds this month, a move which a senior central bank official described as "no small step" in supporting green finance in the country. India is planning to raise INR160 billion ($1.9

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Environmental Finance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The partners behind the EU-led Global Green Bond Initiative (GGBI) have signed a strategic partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and IDB Invest.

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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 12, 2023

Germany is preparing to issue a new 30-year green bond after mandating six banks to lead the transaction.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 29, 2023

Bringing our environmental and financial sustainability focus together into a Green Bond Framework signaled that the University aligns with and delivers on public commitments and that strengthens our unique, sustainable, place-based approach. What were the key success factors in implementing the case study?

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Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Highlights This operation is the first of its kind performed by the EIB in France. The funds raised will be used to finance projects related to production systems and new technologies in clean.

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Environmental Finance

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Maltese government has been urged by its central bank to issue the first green bond in the country in the hope of "jumpstarting" the local sustainable finance market.

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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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GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

Indeed, the pandemic response is being financed in part through bonds designed to fund development of vaccines or treatments, support healthcare systems fighting the outbreak or provide relief efforts, such as for cities and counties facing budgetary challenges due to lost revenues and emergency spending.

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