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Bonds Could Unlock Climate Adaptation in Emerging Markets

Chris Hall

Climate Bonds’ newly released annual report highlighted the discrepancy in green bond issuance volumes between developing and emerging markets last year. . Three quarters (73%) of green bond issuance originated from developed markets (DM), while 21% came from EMs. trillion, the Climate Bonds report said.

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Are we Eating up Our World?

Chris Hall

To accelerate this transition, UNEP has developed a Land Use Positive Impact Hub to support banks, asset owners and fund managers to determine how to measure the positive environmental and social (E&S) impacts of their land-use investments. Mainstream institutions. Harmonisation and standardisation. The post Are we Eating up Our World?

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UN: Pandemic causes dip in building emissions, but long-term outlook bleak

Envirotec Magazine

“This year showed that climate change is an immediate direct threat to every community on this planet, and it is only going to intensify,” said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP. The necessary interventions to reduce the climate impact of existing buildings should be combined with investing in adaptation and resilience measures.

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From Green to Blue

Chris Hall

As of January 2023, green bonds had raised US$2.5 Part-credit for this meteoritic growth has been given to the Green Bond Principles (GBP) launched in 2014. Utermarck says that this model has driven the success of particularly green bonds, of which 98% of global issuances are aligned to the GBP.