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Ontario Power Generation includes nuclear energy in green bonds

Corporate Knights

Provincially owned Ontario Power Generation has adopted a green bond framework that includes nuclear power – a first for the electricity utility. . The move followed a controversial decision in the European Union to classify natural gas and nuclear investments as green. . But does that make them objectively green?

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The ESG Interview: How Green is Government Debt?

Chris Hall

Governments know they must attract ESG investors to sovereign debt if they are to meet their net zero carbon emission targets by 2050. Data from the Climate Bonds Initiative reveals sovereign global, social and sustainable (GSS) bond volumes increased by 103% in 2021 raising cumulative issuance to US$193 billion compared to US$95.2

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Sustainable Investing in Emerging Markets Can Help Returns and Make a Difference

Jon Hale

The Paris Agreement and the U.N. Through instruments like green bonds , investors can help finance critical infrastructure needs, the energy transition, and renewable energy projects. It can move much-needed capital to address climate change and other sustainability issues.

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Bond Investors Can Help Hold Companies Accountable Post COP26

3BL Media

While the agreements and pledges arising from COP26 are laudable, they aren’t enough. For one, countries’ pledges for reducing carbon emissions by 2030 fall far short of the levels needed to reach the 1.5°C C global warming target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Instead, these 2030 targets are equivalent to 2.3°C,

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Does Asia Need a Unified ESG Taxonomy?

Chris Hall

The basis for many of these is the EU taxonomy (and to a lesser extent China’s mandatory taxonomy for use of green-bond proceeds). China’s mandatory bond system covers six sectors it classes as green: clean energy, clean transport, climate change adaptation, recycling or resource conservation, anti-pollution, and energy efficiency. .

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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'

GreenBiz

In mid-January, PepsiCo joined that club with a strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent across its entire value chain by 2030 and to reach the elusive net-zero emissions status 10 years before it’s called for by the Paris Agreement. A little over a year ago we issued our first green bond.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

New Zealand, a nation of about 5 million people, in late January reported progress toward its goal to cut emissions by 30 percent over the next decade compared with 2005 levels — but recognized current measures won’t be enough to meet the Paris Agreement goals. 17, there were 53 signatories representing 18 industries. .