07 July 2025

Nature data: welcome to the jungle

Analysis

04 July 2025

EU neutrality on 'sustainable' defence prompts investor soul-searching

It's crunch time for conflicted investors to decide whether defence has a place in sustainable finance, Michael Hurley writes
03 July 2025

TFFF could reshape how investors engage with development finance

The Tropical Forest Forever Facility is a prime example of the innovation and cooperation needed to revive the development finance agenda, writes Mahmoud Mohieldin
02 July 2025

What do reduced regulatory reporting demands mean for the future of ESG data?

As regulators pull back from some of their ESG reporting demands, it creates space for a market-led discussion on what data investors want, writes Michael Hurley

News

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    07 July 2025

  • Sustainable real estate: 'We're now seeing deals with really attractive prices'

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  • 'Immature' methodologies mean Scope 3 categories should get ISSB pass, industry says

    07 July 2025

  • JP Morgan's Kinexys testing tokenised carbon credits

    07 July 2025

  • Commission adopts EU taxonomy reporting cuts despite data accessibility concerns

    07 July 2025

  • EIB: GCF investment 'significant boost' to Global Green Bond Initiative

    07 July 2025

  • Virgin Money plans to increase lending to 'changemakers'

    07 July 2025

  • People Moves, 4 July: ResponsAbility, Morningstar, Riyad Bank, Aegon ... and more

    04 July 2025

  • Creating products with positive nature impact still 'challenging', says Triodos IM

    04 July 2025

  • Renewables will be less big and beautiful after Trump bill

    04 July 2025

  • 'Pure-play taskforce' launched for green, social loan market

    04 July 2025

  • We lack 'necessary tools' to understand implications of nature degradation, warns ECB

    04 July 2025

  • SDG Outcomes Fund closes with $100m in commitments

    03 July 2025

  • Australian Taxonomy-linked sustainable bond guidance expected by early 2026

    03 July 2025

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Sustainable Investment Awards 2025

Sustainable Investment Awards 2025

Sustainable Investment Awards are global and seek to recognise asset managers, analysts and data providers incorporating ESG across all asset classes. The winners have been announced.

Clarifying the investment gap and risk exposure

Bridging the sustainable and transition financing gap impacts sovereigns and companies alike. Rahul Ghosh, managing director and global head of sustainable finance at Moody's Ratings, tells Environmental Finance how greater transparency can help.

Taking a sector-specific microscope to climate transition planning

The Transition Pathway Initiative Centre's new Net Zero Standards Assessment Framework takes a sector-specific approach to extractive companies' transition plans. Seyed Alireza Modirzadeh explains

Why forests are the next frontier in climate investment

Investors increasingly understand the role sustainable forestry can play in the path to a net zero economy, argues Andrew Boutwell, Senior Managing Director and Head of Investment Management at Forest Investment Associates.

Focus on Asia Pacific

More on Asia Pacific
27 June 2025

Sustainable Debt Asia Conference 2025 Round-up

The event in Singapore heard how the region is taking a practical approach to the transition, writes Ahren Lester
25 June 2025

What other countries can learn from how China financed a green transformation

China's green transformation has come about more from "financing green" than "greening finance", write Calvin Quek and Mathias Larsen

  • 'Pure-play taskforce' launched for green, social loan market

  • Australian Taxonomy-linked sustainable bond guidance expected by early 2026

  • Japan's planned ETS has spurred carbon credit price rise, says government agency

  • Japan hoping asset owners loosen mandates to invest in transition debt

  • Japan mulled delayed phase-in of ISSB after EU's Omnibus

  • Manulife: 'We are watching the interesting SLLB instrument closely'

  • 'Better explanation of taxonomy differences could drive cross-border investment'

  • Singaporean banks carry out nature-risk study

Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards 2025

Environmental Finance's Sustainable Debt Awards 2025

Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards celebrate the leading green, social, sustainable and sustainability-linked bond and loan deals and recognise market innovations. The winners have been revealed.

Supporting Japan's transition

Osamu Morishita, head of the sustainability promotion department at Mizuho Securities, reflects on the outlook for sustainability in the Japanese market for 2025.

Taking a global view of the climate transition

The climate transition is progressing unevenly, from company to company and region to region. S&P Global Ratings' Christa Clapp and Alexandra Dimitrijevic explain how investors can get a consistent picture

Personality of the year: Bodo Winkler-Viti, Berlin Hyp

Berlin Hyp funding and investor relations head Bodo Winkler-Viti has secured the 'Personality of the year' award at the Environmental Finance Sustainable Debt Awards 2025 for his role as a "true pioneer" in sustainable debt markets for a decade.

Upcoming conferences and webinars 2025

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Sustainable Debt Round up: Q2 2025

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18 September 2025, 8:30 AM

Sustainable Debt Americas 2025

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13 October 2025, 8:45 AM

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Regional share of issuance over time

The past five years have seen the regional making of sustainable bond issuance shift in the face of global dynamics. In 2020 supranational issuance surged in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, yet receded as Asian issuance grew and European issuance dominated while North American issuance fluctuated between 2020 and 2025.

However Q1 2025 has seen a large drop off in the share of both North American and Asian issuance in the face of economic uncertainty, and in the US particularly – political backlash to sustainable financing. Conversely the share of supranational issuance has returned to similar levels as in 2020, with a quarter of the market compared to 26% in 2020. Meanwhile Middle Eastern issuance, which accounted for only 0.66% of the sustainable bond market in 2020 now accounts for 2.2% in the first quarter of 2025.

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