3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

He continues: “Our approach to nature is closely linked with our ambitions on climate, circularity, social sustainability and food systems. World Bank, Washington, DC. IPBES secretariat. IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. 6 Johnson, J.A. 7 WEF, 2020

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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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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. trillion now compared to $1.5

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ESG Today

AUGUST 10, 2023

For the report, Sustainable Fitch examined the green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked labeled bonds rated by its ESG Ratings service, with a focus on the instruments’ Use of Proceeds’ contribution to green and social impact, and the level of transparency and ambition in project or target selection.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 14, 2023

Green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition ( GSS+ ) bonds are shaking off recent macroeconomic and geopolitical volatility, with the market on track to hit US$5 trillion in combined issuance by the end of the year. The EU and European Investment Bank issued US$6.5 billion and US$13.2

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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. The post Sustainable Bond Volumes Outperform Broader Market to Reach Record Share: Moody’s appeared first on ESG Today.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

The importance of DEI-related issues to asset owners was underlined this week when Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, published its expectations for investee companies. . Rights CoLab said: “Investors themselves are fully aware of the problem.

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3BL Media

MARCH 23, 2022

But issuance of social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds—which reference specific key performance indicators, or KPIs—grew fastest (Display). Lamdouar holds a BSc (Hons) in banking and international finance from Cass Business School. Green bonds, which fund particular projects, continued to dominate.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Sovereign green, social and sustainable bond (GSS) issuance has grown rapidly in recent years, but these bonds still only account for 5% of total outstanding sovereign debt. Poland and France were the first governments to issue green bonds in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2023

Despite development barriers, opportunities are emerging for investment in sustainable assets in growing market. 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. billion (US$12.7

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

An important key to unlocking that finance lies in green and sustainable emerging market bonds, which promise lenders both returns and the opportunity to invest in projects with an ESG impact. Rich countries have since struggled to deliver on this pledge, but the private sector have begun to step in.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

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. Equivalent to 40 power stations”.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Indeed, sustainable finance veteran Paul Watchman (an advisor to UNEP FI) argues "the concept of fiduciary duty is organic, not static. It will continue to evolve as society changes, not least in response to the urgent need for us to move towards an environmentally, economically and socially sustainable financial system."

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ESG Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

By 2050, OP Corporate Bank is committed to carbon neutrality in its corporate loan portfolios, and in funds managed by OP Asset Management and OP Fund Management Company.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And the IFC’s Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability have become industry practice across the DFI community when it comes to assessing and managing environmental, social and governance issues. As both the scale and the need for DFI TA programmes continue to grow, it’s time to start this conversation.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Our sustainable debt markets are designed to highlight sustainable investment opportunities to investors with a green, social or sustainable investment agenda. In addition, we launched the product with a group of 20 banks in Denmark that are providing SFDR overlays for all their retail customers.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

While many companies, particularly in the fossil fuel and banking sectors, resist any major departure from their lucrative business-as-usual path, the leaders are doubling down on sustainability. In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2022

The ESG-labelled bond markets are typically considered to include green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds. Achieving net zero by 2050 could require the climate bond universe to reach US$36 trillion by 2025 and over US$60 trillion by 2030, it added.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Progress had been grindingly slow until a breakthrough in the run-up to COP28, which paved the way for a deal on the opening day, effectively giving the green light for grant-based funding, facilitated initially by the World Bank, raising transparency concerns for some.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), which estimates a US$3.1 Global sustainable bond issuance surged in 2021, with data providers estimating total volumes just above or below US$1 trillion; green bonds accounted for roughly half. Developing economies globally need to invest as much as US$4.5 trillion) to reach the goals.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

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”.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“It is about protecting investors, so that when they think what they are buying is a sustainable investment, it really is,” said Elena Tedesco, Portfolio Manager at Vontobel, the private bank and asset management group. “It It is the same product protection, in a way, as that enjoyed by champagne.”.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Banks and financial institutions, for example, will need to observe the complex and evolving web of new sanctions with more rigour than some have managed their compliance obligations in the past. Sectors dependent on discretionary spending suffered, but defensive investments will not be comfortable either.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

Mark Allison , Leader of Merton Council, and Sophia Morrell , a Director at UK Finance, a trade association for the UK’s banking and financial services industry, have been appointed to the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) Board.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Standardising environmental and social impacts in land-use investments needs to be a priority for the financial sector. Banks and other financial intuitions (FIs) have the potential to help transition land-use to become ‘nature positive’ in addition to ‘net zero’, by redirecting investment to sustainable land-use projects.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2023

Additionally, UKSIF said there may be a case for differentiation in remuneration plans between staff within financial and non-financial companies, as there remains a question around the extent to which financial services firms should base executive pay on outcomes “that they ultimately may not be able to control in comparison to governments and real (..)

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James Militzer

JULY 20, 2022

The World Bank estimates that the combined crises of the last two years – the pandemic, rising prices and now the war in Ukraine – will lead to an additional 75 to 95 million people in extreme poverty in 2022. A Model for the Future: Bringing Results-Based Funding to Scale.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Sustainability-linked Sovereign Debt Hub was launched last September by the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, with support from the International Capital Market Association and the Climate Bonds Initiative.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Further, depending on the jurisdiction, emerging guide rails being established by policymakers and investor-focused organisations have slightly differing perspectives on what it means to be socially sustainable. . All investors want to understand is where investee companies are on their journey to becoming socially sustainable.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This has manifested itself most markedly at state level, with some states withdrawing business from asset managers, imposing anti-ESG requirements on suppliers and investigating banks’ climate-related policies, while others have gone in the opposite direction, for example by setting their own net zero policies.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. Resch sees her common career thread as what she calls "social sustainability.". Her United Nations path started in 2015 when she supported the Sustainable Development Goals at the Executive Office of the U.N.

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