Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2023

Linklaters forecasts record year for green bonds, while SLB issuance suffers Q2 slowdown. Investor demand for green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds (GSS+) has surged in H1 2023, with regulatory developments bringing greater transparency and confidence to the market.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Government of Canada announced that it will issue its second green bond this week, aimed at unlocking financing to accelerate green infrastructure and nature conservation projects, and supporting the achievement of the country’s climate goals.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Verizon Communications announced that it has completed a new $1 billion green bond offering, with proceeds from the issuance to be allocated entirely towards renewable energy investments. The offering marks the sixth green bond issuance for Verizon, raising $6 billion since the launch of the company’s inaugural green bond in 2019.

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ESG Today

APRIL 21, 2023

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.

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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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ESG Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted 418-79 on Thursday to approve the adoption of a new European Green Bond (EuGB) label, aimed at fighting greenwashing and providing investors with confidence that their investments are being appropriately directed towards financing sustainable business activities and technologies.

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ESG Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Energy technology company Siemens Energy announced the successful placement of its inaugural green bond, raising €1.5 With the successful issuance of our first bond, which meets our Green Bond Framework, I am very pleased to see that the capital markets are confident in our strategy to become the leader in the energy transition.”

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2024

This turnabout has been most pronounced in the green bond market, where power utilities have, controversially, been adding nuclear energy as an option for green bonds. With this in mind, nuclear green bonds promise to help fund decades of net-zero energy for the public and years of clean financial returns for investors.

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Environmental Finance

AUGUST 16, 2023

The UK Treasury should develop a voluntary Green Bond Standard to enable issuance of green bonds aligned to the UK green taxonomy, an expert group has recommended.

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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 17, 2024

German development bank KfW has raised CNY2 billion ($275 million) from its first Chinese yuan-denominated green bond deal of 2024, Environmental Finance has learned - consolidating its position as the largest foreign issuer of green notes in this currency.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Government of Hong Kong announced today the completion of a green bond issuance, raising $5.75 billion in a triple-currency offering, with bonds denominated in US dollars, Euros and Renminbi (RMB). According to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the offering marks the largest ESG bond issuance in Asia to date.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

David Zahn , Head of Sustainable Fixed Income at Franklin Templeton , says new standards and innovations are expanding the supply of green bonds to meet increased investor demand. Investor demand for green, social, sustainability-linked and transition bonds (GSS+) continues to rise rapidly, outstripping supply.

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Environmental Finance

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

After not issuing a green bond since 2019, Export Development Canada has revealed to Environmental Finance that it will issue a green bond soon, and is considering its first-ever 'orange' bond.

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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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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

JULY 19, 2023

UAE-based renewable energy-focused developer Masdar announced today that it has raised $750 million in its inaugural green bond offering, with proceeds aimed at financing its buildout of new “dark green” renewable energy projects. ” Demand for the offering was strong, with the order book reaching $4.2

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 29, 2024

Green bonds are valuable for hard-to-abate issuers to demonstrate what they are doing right now to secure a low-carbon future when 'zero carbon' technologies are still being developed, according to Alcoa and ING.

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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 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

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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ESG Today

AUGUST 1, 2022

Automotive giant General Motors (GM) announced the launch of its first green bond offering, pricing $2.25 The post GM Issues its First Green Bond to Power Clean Transportation Investments appeared first on ESG Today. billion of senior unsecured notes to finance its clean transportation strategy.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 22, 2021

Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha is pleased to partner with Sustainable Research and Analysis LLC provide timely market snapshots of trends and developments affecting the. The post Growth of social bonds challenges green bond funds appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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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

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

JULY 25, 2023

Investors need to develop an industry-wide standard to provide clear rules to "police" green bonds which stray from market expectations following issuance, according to RBC BlueBay Asset Management.

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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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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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Environmental Finance

MAY 10, 2023

million) to ready its first sovereign green bonds and develop its own taxonomy of sustainable activities. The Australian government has committed AUD10 million ($6.8

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 21, 2023

The Australian government has announced it plans to issue a debut sovereign green bond and will co-fund the development of a sustainable finance taxonomy.

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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

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

MAY 24, 2023

Plans to create a free-to-use database of EU sustainability disclosures passed a key milestone, after politicians struck an agreement on its development which will extend its coverage to include green bonds.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 26, 2021

American multinational technology company Apple has announced that its 2020 green bonds will support the installation of 1.2 The company funded 17 green bond projects, from the $4.7 billion in green bond funding the company issued since 2016. From its green bond portfolio, Apple has so far allocated $2.8

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3BL Media

JANUARY 9, 2024

Originally published on bloomberg.com Bloomberg announced the launch of new green-tilted fixed income indices, which seek to increase weighting to green bonds in some of Bloomberg’s flagship indices such as the Global Aggregate, Treasury and Corporate Indices.

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3BL Media

MAY 1, 2024

BXP’s sustainability & impact strategy aligns with our mission to envision, develop, and manage exceptional properties that enhance client success, strengthen communities, and advance opportunity. BXP was recognized as an inaugural Platinum-level Green Lease Leader by the Institute for Market Transformation and the U.S.

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MSCI

APRIL 14, 2020

As the green-bond market matures, it is developing offshoots. The types of projects financed, as well as the emergence of innovative types of bonds and loans linked to the ESG targets, is growing. These initiatives may broaden the market for green investment options.

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