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A Business Guide to Sustainable Finance

3BL Media

Sustainability-linked bonds Similar to green bonds, but with a broader focus, sustainability-linked bonds are designed to finance or refinance projects that have a positive impact on the issuer's sustainability performance. The return on these bonds is often linked to the issuer's achievement of ambitious, predefined sustainability targets.

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A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good

Stanford Social Innovation

As a result, to feel better, these investors want to screen out problematic companies from their investment portfolio. To serve this constituency, asset managers have long offered “values” or “socially responsible” (SRI) funds that offer a “negative screen.” As a bonus, you may be able to see the results for yourself.

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Sustainable investments had secretly great year

Corporate Knights

According to reports from Bloomberg New Energy Finance and the International Energy Agency, green themes like renewable energy, green buildings and electric cars are seeing double-digit growth in capital investments. Divestment is different from ESG, which is different from impact investing.