ESG Today

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Switzerland Issues Inaugural $766 Million Green Bond. ESG Investing. Impact Investing Passes $1 Trillion for First Time: Report. See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements. ESG Reporting & Disclosure.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

want impact investment options. is responding with an impact bond fund that starts at £20 per share. The Triodos Sterling Bond Impact Fund, launching in early November, will invest in corporate, social and green bonds, and U.K. The post Triodos Bank develops impact bond fund for U.K.

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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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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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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The principles include Green Bond Principles 2021, Social Bond Principles 2021, Green Loan Principles 2021 and Social Loan Principles 2021. Jack is a Principal Consultant in the Sustainable Finance & Impact investing team. Congratulations Michael Baldinger, Daniel Hanna and all involved.".

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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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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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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

Privately-owned UK investment and asset management firm Low Carbon has announced its financial close on the Mörknässkogen wind farm in Finland. We believe that the landscape is evolving into a bond picker’s market, and security selection will be increasingly additive to our future return.” .

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Utilizing private funds that are funneled toward bridging the gap between social impact and environmental goals is key and has been demonstrated to be profitable for companies. The current green bonds used to offset GHG emissions can be expanded to identify a roadmap that supports individuals within a corporation’s community or supply chain.

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

Poland was the first sovereign to launch a green bond in December 2016. According to data provided by Refinitiv, EM sovereign green bond issuance accounts for around 18% of total sovereign volumes, at US$28 billion from 28 issues. . Pole position . Since then, it has been followed by other EM peers. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

“The investment industry has reached an exciting point where we can contribute to positive societal and environmental change, alongside a focus on financial performance,” said Hari Balkrishna, Portfolio Manager of the fund. The Global Impact Credit fund aims to target durable growing businesses with a clearly identified impact thesis.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

EMIA’s labelled bond standards cover both corporate and sovereign issuers in the emerging markets, and are designed to help investors identify which bonds make a “meaningful contribution” to ESG outcomes. EMIA lists recipients of the gold standard on its site.

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B the Change

APRIL 16, 2023

Can they leverage “global initiatives in responsible investing to inform companies about opportunities to access capital?” Get Started: How to Finance Your Sustainability Strategy describes how to access impact investing and green bonds. Is your business looking for ideas on making a positive environmental impact?

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. Green bonds are indeed often oversubscribed due to their success.

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Chris Hall

MAY 20, 2022

UK charity Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation plans to allocate £100 million of its £1 billion endowment to impact investments that contribute to ensuring a healthier society. The charity aims to grow its impact allocation to £100 million by the end of 2026. “As

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

This tool helped NN IP launch a sovereign green bond fund last April, classified as Article 9 under SFDR. The sovereign green bond fund is one of four funds in NN’s green bond portfolio, reflecting a growing appetite from investors. For us a green bond is a pure impact investment,” Siermann says.

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James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In financial markets, we’ve seen a significant increase in the issuance of green, social and sustainability bonds – according to a 2020 IFC report , “social bond issuances increased eightfold over 2019, sustainability bond issuances increased by a factor of three over 2019, and green bonds broke $1 trillion in cumulative issuances.”

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Impakter

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

What Is Green Finance and Why Does it Matter so Much? What is green finance? How impact and sustainable investing could fit into it? What countries are the best for green finance? What is green finance? There are a lot of questions and doubts about its definition.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

These KPIs set out a framework to monitor project impact performance, aggregate reporting across their portfolio and publicly disclose this information. In addition to impact funds, there are a growing variety of debt funds, specialised green bonds and listed equity funds that aim to apply E&S frameworks to generate positive impacts.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including HSBC AM, RLAM, LOIM, Algebris Investments and TLEI. . HSBC Asset Management has launched the HGIF Global Emerging Markets Corporate Sustainable Bond fund.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impact” investments, your options are limited. We interviewed more than two dozen professionals with expertise in asset management, impact investment, asset allocation, and measurement. Issuance of green bonds has more than tripled from 2017 to 2021.

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ESG Today

JULY 23, 2023

ESG Services and Tools ESG Book Launches In-Depth Company ESG Performance Scores Deloitte, Salesforce, AT&T Collaborate on IoT-Powered ESG Data Management Solution Guest Post: Data, Disclosures and the New Dawn of Leadership ESG Investing AXA IM Alts Invests $49 Million in Amazon Rainforest Restoration Projects DWS Launches U.S.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2023

“ A plan to mobilise all sources of funding is required for that – including overseas development aid and grants, projects funded through MDBs and international financial institutions and those that see concessional finance and guarantees crowd in private capital, use of sovereign debt and sovereign green bonds, projects that can be funded solely (..)

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2023

The initiative will also set up a Peace Finance label, building on the work of successful labels in the responsible investment space, such as the labelling from the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI). “The CBI started with verification and standards which helped the green bond market to grow and continue to grow greatly,” she says, adding that she envisions (..)

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“There is an immediate opportunity to drive positive influence on some of world’s most pressing problems relating to climate change and inequality,” said Rekha Unnithan, Co-head of Private Markets Impact Investing at Nuveen. “We

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements Shell Board of Directors Sued over “Flawed” Climate Strategy Wendy’s Commits to Slash Emissions Across Operations, Franchisees and Supply Chain HVAC Giant Carrier Commits to Net Zero Emissions Across Value Chain (..)

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

Currently, there is no clear definition of what constitutes a “green” investment, which has led to a proliferation of green bonds that are not truly environmentally friendly.” Hewett says a key challenge for China’s sustainable finance sector is a lack of unified standards and regulations.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Companies to EU Climate Reporting Requirements ESG Services and Tools MAS Releases Finalized Code of Conduct for ESG Ratings and Data Providers Deloitte Launches Sustainability Upskilling Programs for its Professionals with MIT, NYU, ASU Stripe Launches Platform Enabling Businesses to Pre-order Carbon Removal Sustainable Finance FAB Sets $135 Billion (..)

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

Graham says at an ASFI event in December the Australia’s Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced a sweeping sustainable finance agenda.

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