Remove Climate Change Remove Green Bonds Remove Greenwashing
article thumbnail

OECD Warns of Climate-alignment “Blind Spot”

Chris Hall

Ahead of COP29, report calls for systemic risks of climate change to be viewed through both real economy and financial sector lens. Climate-related systemic risk will not be properly reflected by financial markets until governments ensure both real economy and financial sector policies support climate alignment, recent research suggests.

article thumbnail

Seven sustainable finance predictions for 2025

Corporate Knights

Expect continued growth of sustainable finance assets by these investors in 2025, especially by pension funds weighing the evolving risks of heat, floods and storms and economic transformations from climate change. By the second quarter of 2024, Morningstar estimates that net inflows had dropped to US$6.3

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Subsidy and Synergy: How Philanthropy Can Complement Impact Investing More Effectively

James Militzer

Philanthropy has the opportunity, the privilege even, of acting as a catalyzer to crowd in larger investors to fund large-scale solutions like off-grid solar, financial inclusion or nature-based strategies for addressing climate change. In that way, philanthropy and impact investing can complement each other.

article thumbnail

Trust in Transition

Chris Hall

The answer depends on the fund, the region, the sector, and the company. In a market that expanded before firm regulatory guardrails were put in place, there is very valid concern that some transition-labelled funds may be perpetuating greenwashing by investing in companies misaligned with credible decarbonisation pathways.

article thumbnail

Australia to Issue Inaugural Green Bond

ESG Today

The government of Australia will issue its first ever green bond next year, joining the growing ranks of sovereign debt issuers participating in the sustainable finance market to help fund their environmental sustainability initiatives, according to an announcement on Friday by Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

article thumbnail

EU Green Bond Deal: Sustainable Gold Standard or Unrealistic?

Impakter

Impakter EU Green Bond Deal: Sustainable Gold Standard or Unrealistic? In what’s being labelled a “landmark’’ moment for sustainable finance, EU negotiators last week finally announced the agreement of a provisional deal establishing a gold standard for European green bonds (EuGB). appeared first on Impakter.

article thumbnail

Storebrand Fund a Gauge for Green Bond Growth

Chris Hall

Asset managers Head of Fixed Income hopes market expansion will eliminate need for the purely green bond-focused vehicle within the next decade. Niche to mainstream evolution Storebrand stated that the fund was the first commercial green bond fund, building on the first ever green bond issued by the World Bank in 2008.