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Better returns, greater impact, incredible scale: investors urged to back EM sustainable debt
04 April 2025 -
China raises CNY6bn from 'milestone' debut sovereign green bond
04 April 2025 -
Adaptation investments need to prepare for more than 1.5°C of warming, warns Aberdeen
04 April 2025 -
Industry split on financed emissions data for green bonds, despite uptick in interest
04 April 2025 -
Scope 3 remains 'struggle' in sustainability-linked loan market
04 April 2025 -
Aegon AM 'hesitant' to endorse sovereign SLBs
04 April 2025 -
Social bonds to finance defence? 'Not yet', panellists say
04 April 2025 -
SLBs still have an important role to play in transition, says AXA's Coudert
04 April 2025 -
A principles-based approach would help grow transition loan market, conference hears
04 April 2025 -
Sovereign debt engagement 'not comparable' with corporates, says Aegon AM
03 April 2025 -
EDF 'open' to exploring debt for nature swaps
03 April 2025 -
Two-year delay to CSRD reporting approved, in 'step toward full exemption'
03 April 2025 -
EU Green Bond Standard set to fuel debate on overhauling DNSH, says Mirova
03 April 2025 -
Step-downs are essential for our SLB, says Slovenia
03 April 2025 -
Green bond issuers should ride out geopolitics, says Slovenian government
03 April 2025 -
Amundi 'very surprised' ICMA and EU GBS don't align
03 April 2025 -
ESG corporate bond ETFs have 'material exposure' to deforestation, says AFII
03 April 2025 -
Investors being given 'false confidence' about state of food system
03 April 2025 -
ISS ESG launches sustainability bond rating
03 April 2025 -
Sustainable debt round-up: MTA, Austria, Acciona ... and more
02 April 2025
- 'World first' parametric wildfire insurance deal inked
- Sustainable Bonds Insight 2025
- Nature not a priority for AGM season, says Morningstar Sustainalytics
- SLBs still have an important role to play in transition, says AXA's Coudert
- Sumitomo launches nature-based carbon investment platform
- ISS ESG launches sustainability bond rating
- Goldman Sachs Alternatives acquires water management business
- Sustainable Debt EMEA 2025 conference round-up
- Aussie sustainable bond market 'buoyant' despite taxonomy timidity
- Meta, Climate Asset Management secure million-tonne forest carbon deal
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03 April 2025
ImpactA Global raises over $200m for EM infrastructure
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02 April 2025
Goldman Sachs Alternatives acquires water management business
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02 April 2025
Blue Earth leads €28m in heating and cooling grids business
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02 April 2025
LPPI launches climate and nature fund
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02 April 2025
Revaia raises €250m for second fund
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01 April 2025
Impax completes fixed income assets acquisition
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01 April 2025
EU lawmakers agree vote on 'stopping-the-clock' on sustainability rules
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01 April 2025
UK pensions regulator aims to unlock 'latent demand' for net-zero investment

Average coupon of sustainable bonds by quarter
2024 was a story of two halves for sustainable bond coupon rates. The first half of the year saw coupons edge up to an average of 5.06% in Q2 - the highest they have been during five year period looked at in the below chart. After the second quarter there was a sharp decline in average coupon rates to 4.13% in Q3, falling further to 4% in Q4. Even with the decline in the second half of the year, average coupons for full year 2024 were the highest they have been over this five-year period.
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