article thumbnail

Take Five: No Magic Green Wand

Chris Hall

On the same day, the EU Council and Parliament conjured up a smokescreen by agreeing to prioritise investment in a “ terribly long list ” of green technologies. The act gives the green light to net zero valleys , clusters of clean energy production sites, to be granted rapid approval.

article thumbnail

ESG Bond Issuance to Quadruple by 2025

Chris Hall

Achieving net zero by 2050 could require the climate bond universe to reach US$36 trillion by 2025 and over US$60 trillion by 2030, it added. The ESG-labelled bond markets are typically considered to include green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

This Week’s Tech and Tools News: Bloomberg Launches Global GSS Bond Indices

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Bloomberg, Normative, Sugi, ISS ESG, FE fundinfo and MSCI. . The methodology is based on four core principles: net zero focus, completeness, reliability, and transparency.

article thumbnail

The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition

Corporate Knights

Now we can measure this green business exposure for the majority of companies and are able to count annual green investments that run into the trillions, growing six times faster than the economy at large,” Heaps says. “We did the best job possible with limited qualitative corporate disclosure.” “Now CLIMATE COMMITMENTS 1.5˚C

article thumbnail

Social Safeguards “Critical” to EU Taxonomy

Chris Hall

The European Commission tasked the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF) with drafting minimum safeguards under Article 18 of the Taxonomy Regulation to prevent green investments from being labelled as ‘sustainable’ if they contribute negatively to selected social and governance themes. .