ESG Today

MARCH 19, 2024

Energy provider Constellation Energy announced today that it has raised $900 million through a green bond offering, the first of its kind in the U.S. The inclusion of nuclear power in the eligible use of proceeds for green bonds is a still rare, but increasing phenomenon. Constellation is the U.S.’

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Verizon Communications announced today that it has fully allocated the $1 billion in proceeds from its most recent green bond, issued in May 2023 , will the full amount directed towards investments in renewable energy, supporting the company’s clean energy targets. we are proud to help accelerate the greening of the U.S.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Government of the Hong Kong announced that it has issues approximately HK$6 billion (USD$765 million) of digital green bonds, with the issuance including bonds denominated in HK dollars, Renminbi, US dollars and euros, making it the first multi-currency digital bond offering in the world.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2021

What it took for this company to issue a $625 million green bond. What does it take for a company to issue a green bond? The chief sustainability officer and the chief financial officer at Johnson Controls offer a behind-the-scenes look at how it successfully issued its $625 million bond last year.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Goldman Sachs Asset Management announced today the launch of the Goldman Sachs Global Green Bond UCITS ETF, a new Article 9 fund tracking a bespoke index developed with Solactive, tracking the performance of investment-grade bonds denominated in G10 currencies.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2021

From Apple to New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority, dozens of corporations and public agencies have issued green bonds, yet none answers to a global standard.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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Global Renewable News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC), the Commonwealth's designated joint action agency for municipal utilities, has closed on approximately $15 million in green bonds to co.

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ESG Today

APRIL 16, 2024

green bond issuance, raising $2 billion to be used to finance renewable energy projects. The offering included $1 billion 10-year, and $1 billion 30-year tranches, and was RWE’s first green bond issuance outside of Europe. billion of bonds per year on average through to 2030 in both euros and U.S.

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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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3BL Media

MARCH 23, 2022

An Explosion of ESG Bond Issuance. ESG-labeled bond issuance surged to new heights in 2021. Green bonds, which fund particular projects, continued to dominate. But issuance of social, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds—which reference specific key performance indicators, or KPIs—grew fastest (Display).

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Global Renewable News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The City of Toronto has issued a $100 million green bond to help finance transformative climate action projects with an all-in cost of 4.972 per cent. The transaction is a reopening of the green bond.

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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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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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Environmental Finance

APRIL 25, 2024

Energy-focused financial institution Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (Apicorp) is pricing a new benchmark-sized, US dollar-denominated green bond, three years after its green bond market debut.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Council of the European Union announced today the adoption of a regulation creating a new European Green Bond Standard, marking the last major step for the establishment of a new European Green Bonds (EuGB) label, aimed at fighting greenwashing and helping advance the sustainable finance market in the EU.

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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

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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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Chemicals and materials science giant Dow announced today the completion of its inaugural green bond offering, raising over $1.2 billion to support the company’s decarbonization and circular economy strategies, including the construction of a new net zero emissions chemical plant in Canada.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Government of India announced the release of its Sovereign Green Bonds framework, in preparation for the country’s inaugural issuance of green bonds to finance renewable energy, clean transport, sustainable water, and other environmental sustainability projects.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The market for sustainability bonds reached almost $940 billion in 2023, with more growth expected in 2024.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha has partnered with HIP Investor to highlight upcoming bond issues with social and/or environmental significance. The post Maine rolls out $5 million in green bond series for resilient and sustainable buildings appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Disclaimer: Nothing in this post or on.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Swiss government announced the completion of its inaugural green bond issuance, raising CHF766 million ($USD766 million) to fund expenditures supporting its environmental goals in areas including clean transportation and biodiversity. billion of green expenditures, which will be partly funded by the new green bond.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 20, 2024

The East African country is new to the global green bond market but has quickly become one of Africa’s most active issuers. The post Tanzania turns to green bond market to improve urban water infrastructure appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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ESG Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Bloomberg today announced the launch of new green-tilted versions of some of its flagship fixed income indices, including its Global Aggregate, Treasury and Corporate Indices, aimed at enabling investors to increase exposure to sustainable investments with products that maintain similar characteristics of the parent benchmarks.

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Impakter

MARCH 11, 2023

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.

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Environmental Finance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Dedicated green bond investors largely avoided the ground-breaking 'nuclear' green bond from French energy firm EDF, according to Barclays - but there was "good demand" from sustainable investors more widely.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Information and communication technology company Ericsson announced today the completion of its inaugural green bond issuance, raising €500 million to investments in energy efficiency initiatives.

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Environmental Finance

APRIL 9, 2024

Franklin Templeton has launched its first global dedicated green bond fund, five years after it launched its debut Euro-focused green bond fund.

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ESG Today

JULY 19, 2022

Canadian utility Ontario Power Generation announced the issuance of a $300 million “nuclear green bond,” one of the first green bond offerings aimed at financing nuclear power generation. ” The post OPG Issues $300M “Nuclear Green Bond” appeared first on ESG Today.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 30, 2023

Tokyo-based banking and financial services company Mizuho announced that it has issued a €750 million (USD$820 million) green bond, with proceeds from the offering to be used to finance projects supporting the transition to a low carbon society. Proceeds from the green bond will be provided to Mizuho Bank to finance green projects.

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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

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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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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ESG Today

MAY 10, 2023

Telecom giant Verizon announced its fifth $1 billion green bond offering since its initial green bond issue in 2019, with net proceeds to be allocated exclusively toward investments in renewable energy. Verizon has now issued five green bonds, totaling $5 billion, since 2019, and has secured 3.2

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