Environmental Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Register now Channels: IMPACT Investment Natural Capital Companies: Swen Capital Partners People: Olivier Raybaud Most Read Catalysing sustainable growth: how CGIF unlocks bond markets in the ASEAN+3 region Exclusive: Important methane abatement guidance expected to be published imminently Final Transition Loan guidance expected by November ESG 2.0:

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements Walmart Hits Goal to Reduce 1 Billion Tons of Supply Chain Emissions 6 Years Ahead of 2030 Target Microsoft Signs Deal to Remove 350,000 Tonnes of Carbon Through Agroforestry Rio Tinto Signs Australia’s Largest-Ever (..)

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

But this figure is far higher in developing countries where the protection gap looks more like a chasm. Insuring the transition The net-zero transition will require investments into new technologies, new processes, new measures and the development of new infrastructure.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Lack of green bond issuance Also, speaking on the webinar Olumide Lala, Co-Founder of consultancy Climate Transition, said it was “worrisome” that despite all the opportunities, Africa wasn’t raising sufficient funds for climate finance.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

trillion in Asia-Pacific alone; regulatory uncertainty around a concept barely a decade old and the difficulty of valuing a communal fluid asset has opened a trench in financing between sustainable green bonds and their blue peers. The cumulative value of green bonds issued reached US$2.2

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Our findings may extend beyond individual investors to smaller organizations and endowments that are deciding where and how to invest. We are not investment advisors, but we know that a good first step in choosing investments is to determine one’s goal. Issuance of green bonds has more than tripled from 2017 to 2021.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

CRISIL’s analysis of more than 400 global bond issuers shows that only 75% of high yield or non-rated firms reported Scope 1 and 2 emissions measures, compared with 95% for investment grade firms. Only 39% of emerging market issuers reported water-related emissions, compared with 55% on average for issuers in key developed markets.

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James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

To position themselves for success in the future, these companies are increasingly working to develop more regenerative, circular business models that embed sustainability into the core of their operations. Developing the Next Generation of Leaders. Other policies, like the U.K.’s

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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

Going forward, it will include lifecycle assessment of materials employed in the construction phase as part of the development design as a way of reducing embodied carbon, waste and pollution. Privately-owned UK investment and asset management firm Low Carbon has announced its financial close on the Mörknässkogen wind farm in Finland.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 11, 2023

SRI funds may consider sustainability principles from nationally or globally recognised frameworks, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, UN Global Compact Principles, the International Capital Market Association’s Green Bond Principles, or Climate Bonds Initiative’s Climate Bonds Taxonomy. .

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B the Change

APRIL 16, 2023

A corporate professional from Asia asked: “How can developing countries like ours access sustainable innovations?” Can they leverage “global initiatives in responsible investing to inform companies about opportunities to access capital?” Is your business looking for ideas on making a positive environmental impact?

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

The Global Impact Credit fund aims to target durable growing businesses with a clearly identified impact thesis. The fund won’t be limited to green bonds, instead spanning across the corporate and credit universe, including renewable energy, not-for-profit hospitals and development banks.

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

Assessing an investment’s exposure to environmental factors is increasingly relevant, particularly in EMs. After all, the world’s energy and climate future hinges on decisions made across both emerging and developing economies, according to an International Energy Agency 2021 report. . Pole position . Sustainable discipline .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Ashok Parameswaran, President of the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance, highlights the challenges of achieving environmental and social impact via emerging markets bonds. trillion by September, with demand for emerging market labelled bonds far outstripping the rest of the world. Weak frameworks.

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Chris Hall

MAY 20, 2022

Dutch asset manager Robeco has launched a new bond strategy that will invest in diversified Asian fixed income. The Sustainable Asian Bonds strategy will predominantly invest in companies contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2023

Public sector-led funding initiatives, such as the EU’s latest commitment to invest in sustainability-focused projects across select emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), will not meaningfully reduce the private sector investment gap in the blended finance market, said experts calling for systemic reform.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

For insurance companies it means they need to consider ESG and green finance issues when selling their insurance products and consider it in their asset management arm as well.” Hewett says a key challenge for China’s sustainable finance sector is a lack of unified standards and regulations.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. Risk management.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Mediolanum said the fund’s combination of different, low correlated, yet complimentary investment approaches would create a highly diverse portfolio with a strong focus on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The fund has already invested around £1.3

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Labelled as Article 9 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the fund is targeting fixed income and other similar securities issued by emerging markets-based companies that are contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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James Militzer

MAY 3, 2022

Green Financial Instruments: Contrasting India to the Global Market. In the global market there are dedicated ESG funds and green instruments (ranging from green bonds to green insurance ) to facilitate projects – not only in the domain of climate finance, but also focused on the environmental objectives necessary to support sustainability.

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James Militzer

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Failure of Clean Cooking Efforts — And Some Funding Solutions The development sector has been focused on the critical need to give families in emerging economies access to clean cookstoves for decades. And governments and multilateral development banks have never made the issue a real priority. billion annual funding gap.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2023

“I got started thinking about this through responsible investment and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),” Reynolds tells ESG Investor. “We The gap has grown to approximately US$4 trillion per year, up from $2.5 trillion in 2015 when the SDGs were adopted.

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ESG Today

JULY 23, 2023

Trillion Oil Fund Commits to Reporting Portfolio Emissions Guest Post – Beyond Disclosures: What is the Direction of Travel for ESG Regulation – and How Could Evolving Regulatory Developments Impact your Business?

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

There was already a first draft of a sustainable finance taxonomy, explains Reynolds, and now the Australian government is providing funding for the next stage of the taxonomy’s development. She says ASFI will be learning from what other countries have done on “what to do and what not to do”.

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