20 December 2024

Scrambled regs to give investors indigestion in 2025

Analysis

19 December 2024

2025: The year of the 'transition' label?

After another trillion dollar year for the sustainable debt market in 2024, what should we expect as we approach 2025? Ahren Lester predicts some key trends
18 December 2024

The 10 themes that will drive natural capital investing in 2025

Biodiversity and nature will remain top of investors' agendas in the year to come, writes Genevieve Redgrave
17 December 2024

Impact awards 2024 - Personality of the year: Amar Inamdar

Amar Inamdar has emerged as a leader in unlocking climate finance for Africa.
12 December 2024

Sustainability assurance: sailing a boat under construction

The cost of gaining assurance, data quality and the need for subjective judgments could limit the usefulness of sustainability assurance, Michael Hurley writes

News

  • France to update green bond framework for first time in 2025

    20 December 2024

  • 'Ground-breaking' UK carbon capture and storage project secures £8bn financing

    20 December 2024

  • NTR to invest in long-term storage solutions in 2025

    20 December 2024

  • Positive prospects for sustainable investment despite US policy headwinds, Impax says

    20 December 2024

  • People moves, 20 December: AIGCC, Canopius Group, Label ISR ... and more

    20 December 2024

  • Investors must 'start asking smart questions' on nature, says SBTN

    19 December 2024

  • Germany to raise €15bn from green bonds in 2025

    19 December 2024

  • Canada publishes 'ISSB-aligned' standards, affords flexibility on timing of disclosures

    19 December 2024

  • EU 'transition' benchmarks pitched to incentivise taxonomy-aligned capex spending

    19 December 2024

  • 2025 growth expected for 'hard to miss' sustainable sukuk market

    19 December 2024

  • German ministers propose vast cutbacks to CSRD

    18 December 2024

  • China and India join 31-member network for ISSB adoption in emerging markets

    18 December 2024

  • Family offices interest for impact set to boom, says GIIN

    18 December 2024

  • Sustainable debt round-up: India, Centara, ESR ... and more

    18 December 2024

  • UK's FCA consults on sustainability disclosure for private company trading platform

    18 December 2024

  • EIOPA and ECB endorse pan-EU reinsurance pool to address natcat protection gap

    18 December 2024

  • ING: EU GBS compliance 'must become easier'

    18 December 2024

  • Reform financial system to boost investment in nature, governments told

    17 December 2024

Awards

Environmental Market Rankings 2025

Environmental Finance is delighted to open the Environmental Market Rankings nominations for 2025.

Market Insight

Mapping a better picture of the transition

Jaakko Kooroshy, Global Head of Sustainable Investment Research, and Kieran Brophy, Research Lead - Sovereign Climate, consider the key findings from the latest edition of LSEG's COP29 Net Zero Atlas.
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  9. Debt-for-nature swaps a 'proven tool' - but not a panacea, says TNC
  10. ING: EU GBS compliance 'must become easier'

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Impact Awards 2024

IMPACT Awards 2024

The 2024 Environmental Finance's IMPACT Awards aim to recognise and reward the work of impact investors, and highlight best practice and thought leadership across all asset classes and geographies. The winners have been announced

Leading sustainable investment for a transitioning world

Philippe Zaouati, CEO of Mirova, discusses the firm's recognition as "Asset Manager of the Year" award and its leadership in sustainable investing.

The ideal asset class for impact

Stephen M. Liberatore, CFA, portfolio manager and head of ESG/Impact - global fixed income at Nuveen, explains how it approaches impact investing and why the opportunity set in public fixed income will continue to grow.

Impact project/investment of the year - infrastructure (not including renewables): SSEF & Resalta

Resalta and Solas Capital, through its Solas Sustainable Energy Fund (SSEF), have carried out the energy efficient retrofit of a primary school and health centre in Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia...

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Transition vs sustainability-linked bond issuance

With 2024 coming to a close one of the big stories this year has been the collapse of the sustainability-linked bond label while simultaneously there has been a rise in the transition label thanks to Japan's pioneering sovereign transition bonds. Looking at the trajectory of both labels we can see how after a peak in sustainability- linked bond issuance in 2021 the label has been trending downward with an accelerated drop-off in 2024. Conversely Transition bonds have stayed flat relatively throughout this period, only really picking up in 2024, to the point that both labels have nearly reached a crossover point this year.

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