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• 'Big four' SPO providers becomes 'big five' in 2024

  10 February 2025

  Japan-focused Rating and Investment Information (R&I) secured more than a 10% share of the sustainable finance second-party opinion market in 2024, joining the global 'big four' US providers led by Sustainalytics and S&P Global.

• MSCI, Bloomberg among big-name signatories to Japan ESG data code of conduct

  28 July 2023

  Major data providers MSCI and Bloomberg are among 17 signatories to a Japanese code of conduct for ESG data, the country's regulator has revealed.

• Clean coal axed from China's green bond guidelines

  11 December 2018

  China will axe 'clean coal' from its green bond guidelines, in a move that will see its definition of green align more closely with the Climate Bond Standards and the consensus of opinions in the West.

• Green Bonds round-up, 28 November

  28 November 2018

  France's state-owned postal company La Poste saw its inaugural €500 million ($564 million) green bond attract orders amounting to more than €2.1 billion.

• Green bonds round-up - 24 Oct - 17 new deals

  24 October 2018

  Royal Schiphol Group, the owner of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, has priced a green bond worth €500 million ($576 million), making it the first European airport to issue green-labelled notes.

• Green bonds round-up, 3 October 2018

  03 October 2018

  Getlink said its inaugural green bond had been "comfortably oversubscribed", helping it raise €550 million ($635 million) rather than the €500 million originally envisaged.